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"Scientific" creationists challenge the theory of evolution
Over opposition from 90% of the local senior high school science teachers, the seven-member Hillsborough County school board in Tampa, Fla., decided to require science classroom time for theories that challenge evolution. Says John Betz, associate professor of biology at the University of South Florida: "These people think evolution...
Indeed, it is happening. More than a century after Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, more than half a century after the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925 in Dayton, Tenn., the argument between evolution and divine creation has been revived.
Just last week, in Sacramento, Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss heard arguments in Segraves vs. the State of California, a case brought by Kelly Segraves, 38, director of the San Diego-based Creation-Science Research Center. Like most creationists, Segraves maintains that evolution as taught in U.S. schools is a...
Judge Perluss swiftly rejected that claim. But he gave some aid to Segraves' cause. He ordered statewide distribution of an earlier school board statement cautioning that textbooks avoid "dogmatism" in dealing with speculation about the origins of man. Segraves hailed the judge's ruling as a victory for...