Brendan Nelson: Intelligent Design?
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It's been a ridiculous and ongoing debate in the US for some time now. The alternative theory of Intelligent Design is being promoted in schools in more than 20 states across the US and by the US President1. Some school boards are requiring teachers to refer students to Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution and inform students that evolution is only a theory and is not fact.2 This week, 70,000 Australian scientists have (wisely) taken pre-emptive action and sent an open letter to schools asking them to not consider teaching the 'theory' as it fails to qualify on every... more
