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Science 17 December 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5704, p. 2023
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5704.2023b
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This week the parents of 11 Pennsylvania students sued their local school officials for requiring children to learn "other theories of evolution including ... intelligent design (ID)" (Science, 5 November, p. 971). The suit, filed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, says that the policy, adopted this fall by the Dover (Pennsylvania) school board, violates their religious liberty.

The school board policy is widely seen as violating a 1987 Supreme Court ruling on the separation of church and state, one that creationists have tried to sidestep by focusing on so-called scientific objections to Darwinism. Even the Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, the movement's think tank, says the Dover policy is muddled and "raises serious problems from the standpoint of constitutional law."




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