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BLINDED BY SCIENCE - FICTION
By Lisa Sorg 07/17/2003
San Antonio schoolteacher John Courage told the State Board of Education,
"If we put Intelligent Design into our biology textbooks�then we may as
well as add the study of flying saucers and aliens�because they could be
the 'intelligence' that has designed us all." Photo by Jana Birchum
'Intelligent design' proponents try to wedge religion into Texas' biology
textbooks
The air was stuffy inside the toffee-colored trailer, where about a dozen
believers sat rapt in straight-backed chairs and watched a videotape
about the beginning � and the end � of the world. The narrator, a
middle-aged man dressed in a maroon cardigan and navy blue pants, spoke
with the calm confidence of Mister Rogers, even when he pattered about
quantum physics, pink light waves, and jet fountains spewing from beneath
the oceans, causing the Great Flood.
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FORGET DARWIN: HOME EC ALSO UNDER SIEGE
By Lisa Sorg
Evolution wasn't the only theory under attack at the July 9 State Board
of Education textbook hearing: the once-innocuous home economics � now
known as consumer science � raised the hackles of several Texans.
Eleanor Hutchison called the consumer science textbooks' discussion of
HIV/AIDS "shameful," blaming the increase in AIDS cases on the fact that
"no quarantine has been established."
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