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Petyr Baelish
01-19-2006, 11:16 AM
Down with science! Intelligent design is the wave of the future!1!:rofl:


FRESNO, Calif. Jan 17, 2006 — Under legal pressure, a rural school district agreed Tuesday to stop offering high school students an elective philosophy course on "intelligent design," an advocacy group said.

A group of parents had sued the El Tejon school district in federal court last week, saying it violated the constitutional separation of church and state by offering "Philosophy of Design," a course taught by a minister's wife that advanced the notion that life is so complex it must have been created by some kind of higher intelligence.
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Source (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1514376[/url)

Helios Panoptes
01-19-2006, 11:22 AM
I would approve of such a course, provided it were taught as a philosophy course and not religious indoctrination.

Excorcism
01-19-2006, 02:58 PM
From the way it seems, those parents never actually cared about the fact that it was about Intelligent Design itself...but the fact that they might have a chance to win a lawsuit against the school and win money. :222: