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http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010325/t000025850.html
"BURLINGTON, Wash.--In this rural farming community, a high school biology
teacher named Roger DeHart set out to question Darwin's theories of
evolution. He never mentioned God.
He dissected such scientific topics as bacterial flagella, fossil
records and embryonic development. Examine the evidence, he told the
students, and ponder the Big Question: Is life the result of random,
meaningless events? Or was it designed by an intelligent force?
Over nine years, DeHart would introduce ideas about this theory of
"intelligent design." Then a student protested that DeHart was pushing
religion. Then the ACLU filed a complaint. In 1999, school authorities
ordered DeHart to drop references to design and stick to the textbook.
Last week, DeHart was told he could not even introduce materials
questioning Darwin's theories. Now DeHart is being portrayed as a martyr in
the movement promoting intelligent design, the newest twist in the timeless
debate over the origin of life."
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