W.Va. school officials consider `intelligent design'. (AU Bulletin).The West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. Board of Education will decide later this month whether to alter the state's science education standards to allow teachers to discuss "intelligent design." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The Charleston Gazette, the board of education has been pressured by special-interest groups to open science classes to the teaching of "intelligent design," the latest variation of creationism creationism or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis, a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism (see fundamentalism). . One of the groups pushing for "intelligent design" in the West Virginia public schools conferred in a private meeting with state education officials to make the case for changing the standards. The Gazette reported that John Calvert John Calvert may refer to:
"It sounded to me like the guy had some good points," State School Board President Howard Persinger Jr., told the newspaper. Fundamentalist Protestants lost their battle in the 1920s to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools, but have reemerged in recent decades to try to force public schools to also teach "creation science" or forms of it, such as intelligent design. Federal court precedent holds that public school science classes are not the proper forums for discussions of the Bible. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard Edwards v. Aguillard, was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution was taught , invalidated in·val·i·date tr.v. in·val·i·dat·ed, in·val·i·dat·ing, in·val·i·dates To make invalid; nullify. in·val a Louisiana "Creationism Act" that forbade the teaching of evolution in the public schools unless accompanied by instruction in the theory of "creation science." Writing for the court majority, Justice William Brennan said it was "clear from the legislative history that the purpose" of the act was to narrow the state's science curriculum "to advance the religious viewpoint that a supernatural being created humankind." |
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