Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Annas, George J

Titel

Intelligent Judging — Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2006-05, Vol.354 (21), p.2277-2281

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Annas discusses the December 2005 U.S. District Court decision about a curricular change requiring the teaching of intelligent design in public schools in Dover, Pennsylvania. The judge ruled that intelligent design is not science and that the school board's curricular change served a religious purpose, in violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. George Annas discusses the December 2005 U.S. District Court decision about a curricular change requiring the teaching of intelligent design in public schools in Dover, Pennsylvania. Religious arguments have permeated debates on the role of the law in medical practice at the beginning and the end of life. But nowhere has religion played so prominent a role as in the century-old quest to banish or marginalize the teaching of evolution in science classes. Nor has new genetics research that supports evolutionary theory at the molecular level dampened antievolution sentiment. 1 Requiring public-school science teachers to teach specific religion-based alternatives to Darwin's theory of evolution is just as bad, in the words of political comedian Bill Maher, as requiring obstetricians to teach medical students the alternative theory that . . .