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I just found the link to a national survey which just started about intelligent design and whether or not it should be taught in public schools. The survey also asks about teaching religous philosophy in public schools as well. Very smart questions.

From Superman to Ant-Man, comic book heroes can be used to explain some of physics' basic principles -- and make the learning fun. Honest. OK, physics-phobes, here's a test. When the Green Goblin knocks Peter Parker's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, off a towering bridge in New York City, she dies even though Spider-Man catches her in his web just before she plunges into the river. Did the fall or the webbing kill her? As big questions in physics go, it's not quite up there with string theory and high-temperature superconductivity. But Jim Kakalios, a University of Minnesota physics professor, knows it's...

ACLU, church-state group plan lawsuit over 'intelligent design' mandate The Associated Press 12/13/2004, 12:18 p.m. ET HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution. The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon news conference to discuss the lawsuit against the Dover Area School District, which will be filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, ACLU spokesman Paul Silva said Monday. Neither Silva nor Joe Conn, a...

The Texas State Board of Education will decide early next month whether to require textbooks to include a pinch of criticism in their pages of pro-evolution teaching. But many journalists feel no need to balance Darwinian theory with Intelligent Design perspective, since they see the latter as educational arson. Is that an exaggeration? Look at a recent email exchange between Rob Crowther of the Discovery Institute, the Intelligent Design spearhead, and Houston Chronicle editorial board member James Gibbons. Crowther wrote of his disappointment to find the Chronicle twisting the textbook question and misrepresenting the Intelligent Design position. He asked whether...