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...country's history. In August former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called for a national apology for the "stolen generations." Prime Minister Howard answered that modern Australians "shouldn't be required to accept guilt and blame for past actions." Last month two Aborigines lost a court case in Darwin in which they sought compensation from the government for being removed from their families as children...
...issue is complex, but the solution is simple: Just listen to the conservatives. It may seem ludicrous to doubt Darwin in today's modern society, but as Kansas has shown, a growing number...
LeVake started teaching biology at Faribault High School in 1997 after 13 years as a seventh-grade general-science instructor. It wasn't long before colleagues suspected he might have trouble teaching Darwin's theory to his 10th-graders. "We'd just sort of talk informally," says LeVake of his chats with fellow teachers. "I'd bring up things like 'Look at how complex this system is. It's hard for me to believe this all came about by chance mutations over billions of years.'" When department chair Ken Hubert asked LeVake point-blank how he planned to teach evolution...
...page "Position Paper on the Teaching of Evolution," LeVake pledges to teach evolution while also taking "an honest look at the difficulties and inconsistencies of the theory." He lists examples of irreducible complexity in nature for which, he says, Darwin has no explanation, such as the eggshell and the woodpecker's tongue. LeVake cites "the amazing lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. There has never been a creature discovered that could be considered a logical intermediate of any two major classes of animals or plants...
FARIBAULT, MINN. A science teacher takes on Darwin and is demoted...