A challenge to 'intelligent design'
Matters of faith | csmonitor.com: "A challenge to 'intelligent design'
By Jane Lampman
Eight Pennsylvania families backed by civil liberties groups are mounting the first legal challenge to the teaching of 'intelligent design' in US public schools, saying it violates the religious liberty of students, parents, and faculty. The suit filed last week by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and Americans United for Separation of Church and State is directed at the Dover Area School District, which voted this fall to require science teachers to teach the concept as an alternative to evolution theory.
Intelligent design holds that the complex universe is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process of natural selection. The suit argues that the theory is a religious argument that falls outside the realm of science."
By Jane Lampman
Eight Pennsylvania families backed by civil liberties groups are mounting the first legal challenge to the teaching of 'intelligent design' in US public schools, saying it violates the religious liberty of students, parents, and faculty. The suit filed last week by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and Americans United for Separation of Church and State is directed at the Dover Area School District, which voted this fall to require science teachers to teach the concept as an alternative to evolution theory.
Intelligent design holds that the complex universe is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process of natural selection. The suit argues that the theory is a religious argument that falls outside the realm of science."
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