by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)
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Origins options Biologist Jonathan Wells, a fellow at the Discovery Institute think tank and author of the 2000 book, "Icons of Evolution: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong," was among four participants in a mid-March debate as part of Ohio State Board of Education deliberations over opening the state's science curriculum to the concept of intelligent design. Photo courtesy of John Calvert |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP)--When a State Board of Education subcommittee began a scheduled review of Ohio public schools' science curriculum, they had no idea an intense media firestorm would accompany their deliberations.
At issue: whether the curriculum should be limited to evolution or whether the study of the beginnings of life should include intelligent design, which holds that life is too complex to have just happened.
Ohio has thus become the first state to formally address the place of intelligent design in the classroom. Read More