CNN reports that University of Kansas Department of Religion is offering a new course: “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism, and other Religious Mythologies.”
“The KU faculty has had enough,” said Paul Mirecki, department chairman.
“Creationism is mythology,” Mirecki said. “Intelligent design is mythology. It’s not science. They try to make it sound like science. It clearly is not.”
Last month, the Kansas State Board of Education adopted new “science” curriculum standards that present evolution as a “flawed theory,” despite its standing as the central unifying principle of modern biology. While local school boards retain the right to make decisions about how science is taught in the classroom, the Board’s decisions opens the door for ID in the K-12 curriculum and has been widely perceived as a victory for groups promoting religious beliefs rather than fact-based research as the basis for what is taught in schools.
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