UPDATED: Frist and Intelligent Design
by TChris
Update: The NY Times explores the Discovery Institute's impact on the Intelligent Design debate:
Pushing a "teach-the-controversy" approach to evolution, the institute has in many ways transformed the debate into an issue of academic freedom rather than a confrontation between biology and religion.
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Original post:
Pandering once again to religious extremists (perhaps to make up for his flip-flopping position on stem cell research), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist echoed the president today by arguing that "intelligent design" should be taught in public schools. Frist thinks students need to be exposed to "different ideas." Of course, some ideas (like "people are born with a particular sexual orientation") haven't made the list of ideas to which Frist thinks students should be exposed.
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