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12/13/06

Permalinkby 10:10:34 pm, Categories: Education, 76 words   English (US)

Russian Teen Sues School Over Teaching of Evolution

FoxNews reports that a Russian court held hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student, who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs.

Maria Shreiber sued the St. Petersburg city education committee, claiming the 10th-grade biology textbook used at the Cervantes Gymnasium was offensive to believers and that teachers should offer an alternative to Darwin's famous theory.

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Intelligent design inspiring new laboratory research

Celeste Biever Redmond reports in NewScientist about a one-year-old institute which is the new face of another industry that has sprung up in the Seattle area - the one that has set out to try to prove Darwinism is wrong. It has been funded by the Discovery Institute.

"We are the first ones doing what we might call lab science in intelligent design," says George Weber, one of four Biologic's directors. "The objective is to challenge the scientific community on naturalism."

The claim is that if ID supporters can bolster their case by citing more experimental research, then ID does qualify as science, and is therefore a legitimate topic for discussion in American science classrooms. This is precisely the kind of scientific respectability that research at the Biologic Institute is attempting to provide. "We need all the input we can get in the sciences," Weber told me. "What we are doing is necessary to move ID along."

In addition, two articles referenced in this article in the Journal of Molecular Biology were the direct result of support provided by Discovery Institute's research fellowship program.

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    Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.

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