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By a margin of 8-2, the Indiana State Senate's Education Committee passed a bill designed to insert the teaching of "creation science" alongside evolutionary theory in public school science classrooms. Senate Bill 89, which the Republican-dominated committee passed last week, would give schools the freedom to decide if they wanted to allow "the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life," one of which is creationism.
According to The Times of Northwest Indiana, scientists and religious leaders in the state oppose the bill. "Creation science is not science," Purdue University professor of science education John Staver told the committee. "It is unquestionably a statement of a specific religion." Reverend Charles Allen, head of Grace Unlimited, an Indianapolis campus ministry, concurred, telling the committee that ...
