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Creationists take their challenge to evolution theory into the
classroom
Suzanne Goldenberg in Kansas City
Monday February 7, 2005
The Guardian
Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with
rebellious teenagers, but the last years have been particularly trying
for the high school biology teacher. He has met parents who want him
to teach that God created Eve out of Adam's rib, and then then
adjusted the chromosomes to make her a woman, and who insist that Noah
invited dinosaurs aboard the ark. And it is getting more difficult to
keep such talk out of the classroom.
"Somewhere along the line, the students have been told the theory of
evolution is not valid," he said. "In the last few years, I've had
students question my teaching about cell classification and genetics,
and there have been a number of comments from students saying: 'Didn't
God do that'?" In Kansas, the geographical centre of America, the
heart of the American heartland, the state-approved answer might soon
be Yes. In the coming weeks, state educators will decide on proposed
curriculum changes for high school science put forward by subscribers
to the notion of "intelligent design", a modern version of
creationism. If the religious right has its way, and it is a powerful
force in Kansas, high school science teachers could be teaching
creationist material by next September, charting an important victory
in America's modern-day revolt against evolutionary science.
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Read it at http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1407422,00.html
J. Spaceman
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