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These Weeks in Intelligent Design – 02/06/11

June 3rd, 2011 | Category: this week in intelligent design

Intelligent design news and discussion from the 19th of May to the 2nd of June, 2011.

Exams, exams and more exams are what’re coming up in my life soon, so understandably I’ve been a little sidetracked from blogging. But no fear! TWiID is back after a week off (I’m lucky the acronym still fits after I use the alternate multi-week title, I suppose), and I’m ready to get stuck into some ID news and discussion. The big story over the past week has been the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), [...]

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You’re never too young – a high school student fighting to repeal creationism

February 24th, 2011 | Category: evolution education

Wow. Zack Kopplin is my hero: he is a high school student (!) rallying the troops to help repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, which was passed in 2008. The act allows for creationist or anti-evolution teachers to bring “supplementary materials” into class that could undermine the proper teaching of evolutionary biology, effectively allowing creationism to enter the classrooms of Louisiana.

Zack and his cause recently received coverage from Michael Zimmerman at the Huffington Post:

Zack doesn’t consider himself to be brave. Rather he [...]

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