Evolution-Schmevolution: So-Called ‘Intelligent Design’ Being Taught at ISU

 Evolution-Schmevolution:  So-Called 'Intelligent Design' Being Taught at ISU


The Des Moines Register
 
By Lisa Livermore




Ames, Ia. —
Tom Ingebritsen is a science professor who leads a small class where he
pushes a hot button at the Iowa State University campus: God.




In his
class, “God and Science,” he asks students to think critically about
why they do or do not believe a creator had a hand in the planet's
beginnings.




“This is an issue that we ought to be talking about,” Ingebritsen said after class. “Everybody is afraid to talk about it.”



The
issue of teaching about a divine role in nature reached a boiling point
last month when more than 120 ISU faculty members signed a petition
opposing the teaching of intelligent design as a scientific theory.

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