At a Whitehouse interview yesterday, rebuffed, was a suggestion by our President that the theory of intelligent design ought to be taught with evolution in public schools. See story".
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Critics saw Mr. Bush's comment that "both sides" should be taught as the most troubling aspect of his remarks.
"It sounds like you're being fair, but creationism is a sectarian religious viewpoint," said Susan Spath, a spokeswoman for the National Centre for Science Education. "It's not fair to privilege one religious viewpoint by calling it the other side of evolution."
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Intelligent design, advanced by academics and biblical creationists, dispute the idea that natural selection - The force Charles Darwin suggested to have drove evolution - fully explains the complexity of life. Intelligent design proponents say life is so intricate that only a powerful guiding force, or intelligent designer, could have created it.
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