Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Evolution Debate Rekindled in Ohio
Conservatives on Ohio's Board of Education are battling to reopen the debate over the teaching of the theory of evolution in the state's public schools. Their goal is to force curriculum changes that would also allow discussion of the intelligent design theory.
The Ohio Board of Education has already reversed itself on the issue once.
Intelligent design advances the theory that certain aspects of life and the universe originate from an 'intelligent cause' and are not related to 'natural selection' or survival of the fittest. Critics of the theory include the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which reported in 1999 that Creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they are not testable by the methods of science.'
However, during the Ohio Board of Education's Achievement Committee meeting on July 10, conservative board member Colleen Grady proposed that the state's science standards be applied to teaching issues such as evolution, global warming and cloning.
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