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Submission + - A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism

Submitted by dunelin on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @04:22PM

dunelin writes: Creationists have been trying to present intelligent design as science for the last few years. A new 5 minute digitally animated movie online tries a new tact: present the creationism story with God as a very scientific engineer and evolution using religious symbolism. It's a bit like a Monty Python movie. The side to side mash-up presentation is thought-provoking. This makes a great artistic follow-up to Nova's story last month of Intelligent Design on Trial.

Submission + - Texas & Florida to Revise Evolution Textbooks (wired.com)

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eldavojohn

on Monday December 10, 2007 @05:41PM

eldavojohn writes: "Texas, the second biggest textbook market among the states, & Florida plan to revise their textbooks & education standards to make room for creationism. The bulk of this article looks at whether or not this is a cunning move by The Discovery Institute (Creationism's proponent in the scientific realm) to eventually move these ideas to a national level. From a letter from the National Center for Science Education, "The DI has a long history of involvement with the Texas standards process and with textbook adoption in Texas.... Because of the size of the Texas textbook market, and because many other states follow their lead, publishers generally follow whatever direction Texas points them in." This could be a step back to teaching evolution as merely a 'theory' and thereby allowing teachers to expound upon other possibilities like intelligent design, Beelzebub, Zoroaster or even The Flying Spaghetti Monster's Noodly appendage."

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