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Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens
[Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum Quoted]
Washington Post
http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/washpost/
2005-03-15_washpost_know_nothings.pdf
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/89akcan
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In Seattle, the nonprofit Discovery Institute spends more than $1 million
a year for research, polls and media pieces supporting intelligent design.
In Fort Lauderdale, Christian evangelist James Kennedy established a
Creation Studies Institute. In Virginia, Liberty University is sponsoring
the Creation Mega Conference with a
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Kentucky group called Answers in Genesis, which raised $9 million in 2003.
At the state and local level, from South Carolina to California, these
advocates are using lawsuits and school board debates to counter
evolutionary theory. Alabama and Georgia legislators recently introduced
bills to allow teachers to challenge evolutionary theory in the classroom.
Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico and Ohio have approved new rules allowing
that. And a school board member in a Tennessee county wants stickers
pasted on textbooks that say evolution remains unproven.
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A prominent effort is underway in Kansas, where the state Board of
Education intends to revise teaching standards. That would be progress,
Southern Baptist minister Terry Fox said, because "most people in Kansas
don't think we came from monkeys."
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The movement is "steadily growing," said Eugenie C. Scott, executive
director of the National Center for Science Education, which defends the
teaching of evolution. "The energy level is new. The religious right has
had an effect nationally. Now, by golly, they want to call in the chits."
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Not Science, Politics
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Polls show that a large majority of Americans believe God alone created
man or had a guiding hand. Advocates invoke the First Amendment and say
the current campaigns are partly about respect for those beliefs.
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"It's an academic freedom proposal. What we would like to foment is a
civil discussion about science. That falls right down the middle of the
fairway of American pluralism," said the Discovery Institute's Stephen C.
Meyer, who believes evolution alone cannot explain life's unfurling. "We
are interested in seeing that spread state by state across the country."
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Some evolution opponents are trying to use Bush's No Child Left Behind
law, saying it creates an opening for states to set new teaching
standards. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a Christian who draws on Discovery
Institute material, drafted language accompanying the law that said
students should be exposed to "the full range of scientific views that
exist."
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"Anyone who expresses anything other than the dominant worldview is
shunned and booted from the academy," Santorum said in an interview. "My
reading of the science is there's a legitimate debate. My feeling is let
the debate be had."
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Although the new strategy speaks of "teaching the controversy" over
evolution, opponents insist the controversy is not scientific, but
political. They paint the approach as a disarming subterfuge designed to
undermine solid evidence that all living things share a common ancestry.
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"The movement is a veneer over a certain theological message. Every one of
these groups is now actively engaged in trying to undercut sound science
education by criticizing evolution," said Barry W. Lynn, executive
director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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"It is all based on their religious ideology. Even the people who don't
specifically mention religion are hard-pressed with a straight face to say
who the intelligent designer is if it's not God."
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Although many backers of intelligent design oppose the biblical account
that God created the world in six days, the Christian right is
increasingly mobilized, Baylor University scholar Barry G. Hankins said.
He noted the recent hiring by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of
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Discovery Institute scholar and prominent intelligent design proponent
William A. Dembski. The seminary said the move, along with the creation of
a Center for Science and Theology, was central to developing a
"comprehensive Christian worldview."
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"As the Christian right has success on a variety of issues, it emboldens
them to expand their agenda," Hankins said. "When they have losses . . .
it gives them fuel for their fire."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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