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Friday, November 23, 2007

Video of the US Dover Area intelligent design case

reposted from: http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2007/11/video-of-us-dover-area-intelligent.html
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Thursday, 22 November 2007

Video of the US Dover Area intelligent design case

Alan Watson at Humani has forwarded us this great resource for anyone interested in the intelligent design debate in America. Popular US science TV series NOVA have put online their 2-hour show on the 2005 federal court case over the teaching of intelligent design in the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania.

It was a landmark case in which the judge ruled that intelligent design had no place in science lessons. It originated when a group of parents sued the school district over a statement that the school board required teachers to read out in science classes whenever evolution was taught. This stated that evolution was a theory rather than a fact, and offered students a book on intelligent design, Of Pandas and People, if they were interested.

The film is split into handy 10 minute chunks, so dig in.

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