York Pa. Intelligent Design Civil Trial Set to Start Next Week

Intelligent Design Civil Trial Set to Start Next Week

Posted: September 19, 2005 9:20 AM EST

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The latest chapter in a long-running legal debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools is about to unfold in federal court in Harrisburg.

In a civil trial set to begin September 26th, the Dover Area School District will defend its policy requiring ninth-grade students to hear about "intelligent design" in a preamble to biology lessons on evolution.

Intelligent design holds that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms. It implies that life on earth was the product of an unidentified intelligent force.

Critics say intelligent design is merely creationism, a literal reading of the Bible's story of creation, camouflaged in scientific language.

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