Dover-intelligent design case 10 years later
[...] Griffin would reply, you did.
In October 2004, the Dover Area School Board, citing a need to make students "aware of gaps/problems" in Darwin's theory of evolution, voted to add the mention of intelligent design to the ninth-grade biology curriculum.
The judge wrote that intelligent design could not separate itself from its religious origins, and mentioning it in a public school science class was unconstitutional.
He could be a science teacher in Dover or somewhere else, "turning students on to the wonders of the natural world and the satisfaction of scientific discovery."
"Do you have a personal interest in science?" asked Witold "Vic" Walczak, the legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania and one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
Not long after the decision, during indoor recess in the third-grade, one of Griffin's classmates asked him: "If I came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?"
In Dover, his mother and the 10 other plaintiffs had succeeded in keeping intelligent design out of biology class.
Only when he entered high school did Griffin — who was always connected to the intelligent design case — start to realize the significance of the decision.
Steve Stough, a plaintiff in the intelligent design case and a member of the chapter board, had been board secretary for four or five years and said he wanted to step down.
Today at Central York High School, Griffin is the president of the Model United Nations Club and plays trombone in marching band, among being involved in other activities.
On April 25 at Juniata College, he took third place in the state in the cell biology event.
Matthew Hess, a ninth grade earth science teacher who's in charge of the Science Olympiad program, has known Griffin since about halfway through his freshman year.
In April 2014, Griffin and his mother attended a ceremony put on by the National Center for Science Education at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
The center was presenting its "Friend of Darwin" award to four of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the intelligent design case.
Griffin, riveted, listened as Steve Harvey and Kevin Padian — one an attorney who represented the plaintiffs, the other an expert witness, paleontologist and professor from the University of California, Berkeley — debated whether Darwin was first to discover evolution by natural selection.
