Creationism Creeps into U.S. Classrooms

I recommend the Nova show “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” For me, one of the most fascinating details was that the prosecution requisitioned from the publisher all the drafts of Pandas and People, an early and prominent book teaching intelligent design. The prosecution’s meticulous researcher discovered that after a major ruling against the teaching of creationism in California, the next draft of Pandas and People had the word “creationism” changed in every instance to–you guessed it–”intelligent design.”

After the presentation of this evidence, those in Dover who argued
that intelligent design was in no way related to creationism were left without a leg to stand on.

Here is the web link

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

Ruling by JUDGE JOHN E. JONES III: “In an era where we’re
trying to cure cancer–where we’re trying to–prevent pandemics,
where we’re trying to keep science and math education on the
cutting edge in the United States. To introduce and teach bad
science to ninth grade students make very little sense to me. You
know, garbage in, garbage out. And it doesn’t benefit any of us
who benefit daily from scientific discoveries.”