Internet group donates evolution texts to Dover High School.(NEWS AND COMMENT)(evolution versus intelligent design)(Brief Article)

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

An international e-mail group that focuses on opposing the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) creationism has donated over twenty science books to the Dover High School Library in Dover, Pennsylvania. The books include What Evolution Is by evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics by Robert Pennock, and Finding Darwin's God by biologist Kenneth R. Miller.

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