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Classroom case.(intelligent design)

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| March 27, 2006 | Jakubiak, David | COPYRIGHT 2006 Scholastic, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Last December, a judge in Pennsylvania made a ruling that changed biology classes in the state.

In 2004, the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, voted to require teachers to read a statement about "intelligent design" (ID) during a unit on evolution. Students traditionally learn that living things evolve, or gradually change their features over time. The required statement offered ID--the notion that certain features of living things are so complex that they must have come about due to an intelligent designer--as an alternative explanation to evolution.

Later that same year, some concerned parents sued the school district over the ...

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