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Designing an intelligent curriculum.(EDUCATION REPORT)
In the last 30 years, there has been a steady stream of legal actions and proposed legislation in states--including Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas--that underscores the continuing dissatisfaction of American citizens with Darwinian evolution enjoying a monopoly in the science classroom.
For left-wing secularists and humanists, the glory days of requiring public schools to exclusively teach evolution as the only scientific approach to life on Earth may be over. While "creationism" and "God" are still dirty words in public schoolrooms, "intelligent design" may yet see light.
Utah's Senate Bill 96 was passed by the Senate on January 23, 2006, by a 16-12 vote. It has now moved to the Utah House, where its fate is uncertain--it has supporters and detractors from both parties.
If passed, SB 96 would require the Utah State Board of Education to "establish certain curriculum requirements and policies relating to ...
- Who designed that? Creationism's doubts about intelligent design.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) McIver, Tom June 22, 2007 700+ words
...political reasons, however, Intelligent Design theorists avoid naming...those creationists who see intelligent design as a battering ram to smash...Christianity. They welcome intelligent design theory even more eagerly...genetic engineering. Each human race had a ...
- Elsewhere in this issue, John Derbyshire attacks the theorists of "intelligent...
- Magazine article from: National Review February 14, 2005 700+ words
...this issue, John Derbyshire attacks the theorists of "intelligent design." What they are doing, he says, is not science. That...guides the process or set it in motion in order to yield the human race, then most Christians will not sign on. But no scientific...
- `Intelligent design' is another theory about the origin of life.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Beem, Kate January 16, 2001 700+ words
...called evolution to a third choice, "intelligent design." Kansas Board of Education members...say, the document won't include intelligent design, the theory that everything in the...phenomena are acceptable. According to intelligent design supporters, naturalism requires...
- Intelligent design goes on trial in federal court.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 26, 2005 700+ words
...Pa. _ The first legal test of intelligent design, a concept critical of Darwin...selection and random mutation against intelligent design, which holds that certain features...theory of evolution and introduces intelligent design as an alternative explanation of...
- UCLA: Intelligent design pushed out of Calif. high school.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 19, 2006 700+ words
...public high school agreed this week not to teach intelligent design, the latest in several California legal cases addressing the place of intelligent design in public schools. Intelligent design, which holds that living beings are so complex...
- Intelligent design theory argues for a designer behind life.
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star May 3, 2005 700+ words
...question in the growing debate over the intelligent design movement is this: What's religion...Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory." Not so, says John Calvert...director of the Kansas City-based Intelligent Design Network Inc. "What we (intelligent...
- Intelligent design duels Darwin in 'Scopes II'.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 27, 2005 700+ words
...Pa. -- The first legal test of intelligent design, a concept critical of Charles Darwin...selection and random mutation against intelligent design, which holds that certain features...theory of evolution and introduces intelligent design as an alternative explanation...
- Intelligent-design case has little effect locally.
- Newspaper article from: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) December 22, 2005 700+ words
...Pennsylvania ruled that teaching intelligent design in science classes is unconstitutional...who once supported the teaching of intelligent design said the ruling sets a precedent...Jones ruled Tuesday that teaching intelligent design violates the constitutional separation...
- Intelligent design OK for science class, DeVos says.(gubernatorial candidate...
- News wire article from: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) Christoff, Chris Higgins, Lori September 21, 2006 700+ words
...should be allowed to teach intelligent design in science classes as a...to offer evolution and intelligent design in their curriculums...students to the concept of intelligent design -- viewed by most scientists...
- Biochemist says intelligent design isn't just a version of creationism.(Michael...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Anderson, Lisa October 18, 2005 700+ words
...Although he denied the concept of intelligent design advances any religious belief...biology students be informed of intelligent design as a scientific alternative to evolution and referred to an intelligent design textbook, "Of Pandas and...
Source: HighBeam Research, Designing an intelligent curriculum.(EDUCATION REPORT)