BBC on science/evolution teaching in the USA
Surprised by this story from 23Mar on BBC ~0400 UTC on 5975. Discussed a
school board in Pennsylvania which wanted to teach "creationism" in the
guise of "intelligent design", which sounds like spin on creationism. They
suggested that fundamentalists are trying to do this all over America. Is
this so? Is scientific understanding really this poor? The accepted
understanding is: evolution is a "scientific theory", which does not mean
'theory' in the everyday sense. That evolution occurred is a fact, only
the details are being worked out, which is the testable scientific theory
part. And there is no contradiction between evolution and religious faith.
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