Teaching of 'intelligent design' will be delayed (evolution, creation, America)

[Bright-ness' Shadow]

Teaching of 'intelligent design' will be delayed
By The Associated Press
12.28.04
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Attorneys for a school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution said the concept of "intelligent design" would not be taught in biology class next month.

Lawyer Robert Muise, who is representing the Dover Area School District, told a federal judge in Harrisburg that a temporary restraining order to stop the new curriculum from being implemented was unnecessary.

"Intelligent design is not going to be taught," Muise, of the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mich., said Dec. 21 during a status conference. "Creationism is not going to be taught. Religion is not going to be taught."

Attorneys for the eight families who are suing to stop intelligent design from being taught in biology class said they hadn't made a decision on whether to ask for a restraining order. They have until Jan. 5 to decide.

The chapter on evolution is scheduled to be taught in biology class as early as Jan. 13.

The school board voted 6-3 on Oct. 18 to include intelligent design in the ninth-grade science curriculum, in what is believed to be the first such requirement in the country. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some higher power.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the parents earlier this month, contending intelligent design is a merely a secularized version of creationism — a biblical-based view that credits the origin of species to God — and may violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

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[Sunstone]

Thanks for the update, Pah.

I notice these kids are only getting one chapter on evolution. How can evolution be adequately covered in just one chapter?