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...viable option—provided the course still includes the “full span of U.S. history or at least the key events in U.S. history. The Calvary course on Christianity in American history does not cover the stipulated material. Similarly, the rejected English course is taught entirely from a Christian anthology, which goes against the requirement that students read assigned works in their entirety.It is clear that the UC’s refusal to accept these courses is not discrimination of any kind. The UC is merely requiring Calvary abide by the same standards as other high schools...
...Until the teaching schedule for the team-taught Biological Sciences 51, “Integrative Biology of Organisms,” changed this year, Hanken would talk about rabbits’ digestive systems in lecture. The animals can absorb the nutrients from plant matter only in the small intestine, but food is digested in a part of the gut that’s farther “downstream.” So how do plant nutrients finally get into the rabbit’s bloodstream having already passed through the small intestine undigested...
...proponents of intelligent design are going to court to force their brainchild to be taught in public school classrooms alongside Darwin’s well-established theory of evolution, evolutionary biologists here are joining colleagues across the country in becoming more forceful public advocates of the foundation of their own science...
...fight over how evolution is taught is now being waged most directly in a federal courtroom in Pennsylvania, where an ongoing trial will decide whether ninth-graders in the Dover school district should be required to learn about intelligent design...
...Edwards says. “The intelligent design movement now is just a variant on the creationism debates.”Edwards says a bizarre twist of fate caused an alliance between science and religion. He adds that when the natural sciences weren’t taught in American colleges, some scientists justified their discipline by saying it provided evidence of the existence of God.“The irony is now that the tables are turned,” Edwards says. ‘IRREDUCIBLY COMPLEX’Many leading advocates of intelligent design debates are far from uneducated...