House looks at ID
Lawmakers studied a controversial bill Monday to allow any
Pennsylvania school to teach intelligent design, the alternative to
the theory of evolution that has divided the Dover Area School
District.
The House Subcommittee on Basic Education heard four hours of
testimony from a seven-member panel that offered mixed views on the
bill from state Rep. Tom Creighton (R-Lancaster).
Creighton's bill would insert the concept of intelligent design, which
is the idea that life is so complex it must have been created by an
intelligent designer, into the Public School Code. The state's current
education standards don't prevent school districts from teaching
alternatives to evolutionary theory, but they do not specify that
districts may do so. . . .
.. . .Creighton said his bill is needed because evolutionary theory
"has never been updated, and the possibility for variations on that
theory have never been brought forth." Intelligent design "is forcing
the biologists to come up with a little better theory," Creighton
said.
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