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Debunking “intelligent design” theory

Here’s an excellent article by University of Virginia biologist Paul Gross on the intelligent design (ID) movement, and the threat it presents to the way science is normally taught in classrooms. I tried to be as even-handed as I could in my column, but as critic Roger Kimball (quoted by Gross) points out, “Patient objections to the ludicrous become ludicrous themselves.”

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