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To: jwalsh07
"Students will be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin’s theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design."

How is that not mandating the teaching of intelligent design?

2,025 posted on 12/21/2005 4:23:15 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
When it's not taught. For the sake of argument I'll concede that ID is creationism, though I don't believe it for a minute being a creationist mysself.

A school compelling the teaching of creationism would run afoul of the establishment clause. A school not compelling it doesn't. Dover had no intelligent design curriculum, just a statement making students aware of it. No compulsion, no problem. Unless one thinks that non inflamatory speech and books should be censored in public schools.

2,029 posted on 12/21/2005 4:30:51 PM PST by jwalsh07
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