Religion has no place in science but unfortunately it's being pushed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051104/...NlYwN5bmNhdA--
Quote:
Intelligent design, or ID, proponents have also been active in pressing for the changes in Kansas, but school board members there stopped short of including intelligent design ideas in the state standards.
"ID is making enormous progress," said John Calvert, a Kansas City lawyer and ID proponent. "Is it going to happen overnight? No. Is it going to happen? Yes."
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This is a shame, however, questioning the validity of some of the tenets of evolutionary theory, should be encouraged more. This doesn't mean that evolution should or needs to be replaced with a non-scientific belief such as ID or God.
It really does make one wonder why is it that America is still so deeply religious while the rest of the Western world isn't (anybody have theories as to why?). Evolution is taught here just the same as elsewhere.