Re: Undoing Darwin

"Dan Clore" <clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Columbia Journalism Review
> September/October 2005
> Undoing Darwin
> By Chris Mooney and Matthew C. Nisbet
>
> On March 14, 2005, The Wa****ngton Post's Peter Slevin wrote
> a front-page story on the battle that is "intensifying
> across the nation" over the teaching of evolution in
> public-school science cl*****. Slevin's lengthy piece took a
> detailed look at the lobbying, fund-raising, and
> communications tactics being deployed at the state and local
> level to undermine evolution. The article placed a
> particular emphasis on the burgeoning "intelligent design"
> movement, centered at Seattle's Discovery Institute, whose
> proponents claim that living things, in all their organized
> complexity, simply could not have arisen from a mindless and
> directionless process such as the one so famously described
> in 1859 by Charles Darwin in his classic, The Origin of Species.
>
Strike three.