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Jason Spaceman



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 25 2005,04:42   

From today's Chicago Tribune:

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Campus clubs set up to defend concept

By Lisa Anderson
Tribune national correspondent
Published November 25, 2005

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Dappled with autumn leaves, the manicured campus of an Ivy League university in upstate New York may seem far from the cornfields of Kansas or the rural towns of central Pennsylvania, but it represents the newest of these battlefields in the growing culture war over the teaching of evolution.

The national spotlight recently has focused on school boards in Kansas, Pennsylvania and elsewhere that are grappling with calls for including intelligent design, a concept critical of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, in science curricula. But a significant new front in this cultural conflict is opening in the halls of American higher education, spearheaded by science students skeptical of evolution and intrigued by intelligent design.

One of them is Hannah Maxson. A math and chemistry major at Cornell University, she founded an Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club here this fall.


Read it here.

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 25 2005,07:45   

I'm all about Casey Luskin's IDEA club spreading. Because they require club officers to be christian. That says it all, right there.

   
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