Malik Jefferson
September 24, 2017
Judgment day Intelligent design on trial
1. Cite evidence of pre-reflective and reflective judgment as they were expressed
by the participants in the Dover trial.
2. Briefly describe what the central issue in the case was and the Judge’s ruling
and why he ruled as he did.
3. Identify likely examples of cognitive dissonance experienced by the
participants in the Dover trial and also how they may have resolved their
dissonance. (Make sure to review the concept of cognitive dissonance before
responding to this question).
1.) Pre-reflective judgment is an attribute held by some individuals that are in a sense
“stuck in their ways”. An individual of this mindset tends to accept and assume certain
positions based on personal beliefs such as the bible or family members. One individual
involved with the trial that possessed pre-reflective judgment was Michael Behe.Michael
claims that because something seems too complex to have occurred naturally it cannot
be scienc “Behe calls systems like this “irreducibly complex,” a term he coined. And he
