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Darwinism On Trial In Kansas
Kansas is reportedly ready to approve teaching standards requiring Darwin's theory of evolution be challenged in the classroom. In the first of three daylong hearings being referred to as a direct descendant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, academics testified last week about the flaws they see in mainstream science's explanation of the origins of life, The New York Times reported. Defenders of Darwin's theory have refused to testify during the hearings, ordered by the Kansas State Board of education's conservative majority, the Times said. However, their lawyers pushed the other side into acknowledging nothing in the current standards prevents discussion of challenges to evolution. If the board, as expected, adopts the standards next June, Kansas would join Ohio in requiring students be taught there is controversy over evolution. One high school physics teacher, Cheryl Shepherd-Adams, took an unpaid day from teaching to attend the hearings. "Kansas has been through this before," she told the Times. "I'm really tired of going to conferences and being laughed at because I'm from Kansas." All rights reserved. � 2005 United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International.. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of United Press International. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Toronto Research Uncovers Genetic Instructions To Build Life
Toronto ON (SPX) Aug 30, 2005Life at its most basic level - millions of chemical building blocks holding hereditary information - is controlled by genetic instructions, or genes, responsible for healthy development and protection against disease. By feeding biological data into an artificial intelligence program, University of Toronto researchers have uncovered these instructions to build mammalian life.
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