Battles over evolution refuse to evolve.(Last Month in Education)(public schools evolution)

From: Curriculum Review | Date: February 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Another year, another round of tights over the teaching of evolution in public schools. It's been 80 years since Tennessee science teacher John Scopes lost the infamous "Monkey Trial" over evolution. But the debate between biologists and creationists shows no signs of ending, as these recent flare-ups show:

Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District became the first district in the nation to require the teaching of an alternative to evolution called intelligent design, which asserts that a higher power created the world. "Intelligent design is creationism in a cheap tuxedo," ...

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