Intelligent design to be taught in Queensland schools under national curriculum
CREATIONISM and intelligent design will be taught in Queensland state schools for the first time as part of the new national curriculum.
Creationists dismiss the science of evolution, instead believing that living things are best explained by an intelligent being or God, rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
The issue of creationism being taught in schools has caused huge controversy in the US, where some fundamentalist religious schools teach it as a science subject instead of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
In Queensland schools, creationism will be offered for discussion in the subject of ancient history, under the topic of “controversies”.
(Excerpt) Read more at couriermail.com.au
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