NYT: Frist Backs Bush on Teaching 'Intelligent Design' in Schools

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Frist Backs Bush on Teaching 'Intelligent Design' in Schools
By DAVID STOUT
Published: August 19, 2005


WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 - The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, aligned himself with President Bush today when he said that the theory of "intelligent design" should be taught along with evolution in public schools.

Teaching intelligent design as well as evolution "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone," Senator Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said in Nashville, according to The Associated Press. "I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."

A Washington spokesman for the senator, Nick Smith, said afterward that The A.P. had reported Mr. Frist's comments accurately.

The theory of intelligent design holds that life is too complicated to have developed randomly through evolution, and that a higher power must be involved. Critics say that intelligent design theorists are trying to supplant science with religious beliefs.

The senator's view, expressed today after a speech at a Rotary Club meeting, echoed President Bush's remarks on Aug. 2, when he told a group of Texas newspaper reporters that he favored teaching both evolution and intelligent design "so people can understand what the debate is about."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/politics/19cnd-frist.html

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1. as someone said here

we will let them teach creationism in science class if they let us teach evolution in their churches

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1713062