Intelligent design

New term for creationism — the idea that God created life on Earth — cooked up by American right-wingers hoping to smuggle religion into the biology classroom. Perhaps hoping that the epithet ‘intelligent’ would rub off on them too, they demanded that science teachers ‘Teach the controversy’ about evolution, even though there is no controversy at all.

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