155 years of research in which the theory of evolution has been proven without any doubt, there are still conservatives and religious people in the USA who believe that science is a democracy and that the decision of the majority can change the determinations of science.
155 years of research in which the theory of evolution has been proven without any doubt, there are still conservatives and religious people in the USA who believe that science is a democracy and that the decision of the majority can change the determinations of science.
Eight families in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, have sued their district's school board for requiring students to teach alternatives to the theory of evolution, arguing that the curriculum violates the separation of religion and state.
The ACLU University and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State say that the lawsuit is the first attempt to test the question of whether schools should teach the theory of "intelligent design" according to which the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some higher power. Both organizations are representing the parents in the federal lawsuit.
Members of the Dover County Regional Public School Board voted 6 to 3 on October 18 in favor of the decision to integrate the theory of intelligent design into the science curriculum for ninth grade students, in what they believe is the first requirement of its kind by a board of this type in the US that has also become instruction immediately practical.
The American Civil Liberties Association claims that intelligent design is a somewhat secular form of creationism - a view based on the Bible according to which the credit for the origin of species belongs to God, and this goes against the constitutionally protected separation of state and religion.
One of the petitioners, Tammy Kitzmiller, expressed concern that the school board might instill in teachers the feeling that "there are things that cannot be accepted as science". Kitzmiller has two children at the high school in Dover, where the ninth grade teachers are supposed to discuss the topic of evolution during the month of January. Senior officials at the school have not yet commented on the lawsuit.
At least one other county is involved in a federal lawsuit over the study of evolution. A federal judge in Georgia is set to rule on the legality of a suburban Atlanta school's decision to include a warning sticker about evolution in biology textbooks.
Two of the three opponents submitted their resignations in protest. Angie Yingling, the council member who originally specialized in policy, later said that she was reconsidering her vote, but not for reasons of belief in evolution, but for practical reasons: "Anyone with half a brain would have understood that we were going to be sued," she said.
A district in Pennsylvania decided to teach the theory of intelligent design instead of evolution 28/11/04)
Judge to rule on legality of Georgia warning stickers on evolution textbooks
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