The author of this article was surprised to read in the December 21, 2005, Ann Arbor News that "The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Dover [Pennsylvania] School District in its federal case for the teaching of intelligent design, has threatened to sue Gull Lake [Michigan] Community Schools over its policy that "intelligent design" can't be taught as part of science classes..." This was because, just a day earlier, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III had issued his 139-page decision ruling that the Dover schools could not teach intelligent design, because it is not science. Intelligent design (ID) is a term that has become current in the wake of the demise of creationism and creation science. ID proponents claim that, unlike creationism and creation science, ID is science, because by examining the natural world one sees complex biological systems that could not have come about by chance. At the end of his written opinion, Judge Jones sharply rebukes the Dover Board for creating a situation that brought about a trial that he thinks should never have happened. "Although as noted Defendants have consistently asserted that the ID Policy was enacted for the secular purposes of improving science education and encouraging students to exercise critical thinking skills, the Board took none of the steps that school officials would take if these stated goals had truly been their objective."