This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.
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This is neo-creationism, trying to avoid the legal morass of trying to teach creationism overtly and slip it in through the backdoor.
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The stakes are high. If Kansas gets away with it.. I anticipate that in every state where science standards are up for revision, we are going to be fighting another battle.
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Intelligent design is ultimately a science stopper.
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People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.
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Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
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I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.
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But no one is using irreducible complexity as a research strategy, and with very good reason.. Because it's completely fruitless.
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It is already clear that the new slogan for the ID movement is going to be 'Teach the Controversy!' -- even though there is no scientific controversy over the validity of evolution in biology.
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