Litigating Science : Scopes II - The Monkey Trial Returns
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Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District will be fighting in federal court for power to teach intelligent design in science classes. Religion hiding under the name of science has no place in public education.
Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which supports the teaching of evolution in public schools, said the controversy has little to do with science because mainstream scientists have rejected intelligent-design theory.
Intelligent design supporters "seem to have shifted virtually entirely to political and rhetorical efforts to sway the general public," Scott said. "The bitter truth is that there is no argument going on in the scientific community about whether evolution took place."
Intelligent Design Debate to Take Center Stage in Pennsylvania Federal Court