Intelligent design has place in science lessons, says Church of England
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Church of England's new head of education suggest controversial theory should be taught in schools.
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Schools in England are given religious teaching guidelines aimed at promoting "understanding and respect".
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Scientists express concerns the new education minister's religious views might hamper scientific research.
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From the New York Times:          Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of  knowledge about the world because it is based on testable  hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term  "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a  healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion,  having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.              The problem with this neat separation into "non-overlapping  magisteria," as Stephen Jay Gould described science and religion, is  that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science  proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and  intelligible way. You couldn't be a scientist if you thought the  universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly  juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic  structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they  expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far  this faith has been justified.            Thus begins an exploration into the controversy around the origins of  our universe's most fundamental laws.
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To proponents of intelligent design, saying that evolution alone accounts for the wonders of biology is like proposing that sandstorms created the pyramids of Egypt.
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Should be interesting The Vatican will publish the minutes of the Pope's recent meeting with his former doctoral students in which he discussed the Catholic Church's position on the origins of life, evolution, and creationism.â¦
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The Church of England's assembly on Wednesday affirmed existing teaching that homosexuality is no bar to full participation in the church but avoided the fractious debate within the Anglican Communion about accepting gay sexual relationships.
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If you're looking to bolster an intelligent-design argument, the Answers Research Journal features "creationist researchers, scientists and theologians" tackling non-evolutionary, young-earth theories. It's joining the internet age, jumping online with downloadable articles, branching out from its old-fashioned, print-only format.
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Hybrid animal-human embryos created for  medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to  develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the  British parliament.
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Serbian Education Minister Ljiljana Colic has ordered schools to stop teaching children the theory of evolution for this year, and to resume teaching it in future only if it shares equal billing with ...
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The Vatican offers priests a course in casting out devils with lessons on psychology and the law included.
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Charles Darwin&#39;s evolution theory is out of Serb schools. The Bible is in. The education minister&#39;s decision this week to drop the evolution
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George Church wants to sequence your genome.
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A business trust is looking at sites for a Christian showplace to challenge the theory of evolution
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It's Darwin's 199th birthday Tuesday, but the debate about evolution still isn't over. Next week, Florida will vote on how to teach evolution in science classes.
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The government is accused underplaying  the science teacher shortage in England's schools.
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Parents are encouraged to challenge their children's science teachers over the origins of life.