"Intelligent Design, Creationism and Other Religious Mythologies"

That’s the title of a new course that will be offered at the University of Kansas next semester — and intelligent-design advocates are fuming.

Unfortunately, the person quoted first in the Kansas City Star’s story on the controversy is Bruce Simat, an intelligent-design supporter and associate biology professor at Minnesota’s Northwestern College. The Star fails to point out that Simat represents about the same number of scientists it takes to fill a broom closet.

The newspaper’s approach does a disservice to its readers by suggesting that there is real debate in the scientific community over intelligent design. There isn’t.

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