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Europe debates intelligent design in science lessons
Posted on 26th September 2007
The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly is to debate and vote on a resolution opposing teaching the creationist or intelligent design theory in science lessons, it has been reported.
Reuters reports that the resolution, which claims European schools should "resist" the teaching of the theory outside religious education, is on the agenda for October 4th.
It apparently refers to the teaching of the theory as an assault on science and on human rights.
Anne Brasseur, an assembly member from Luxembourg, told Reuters she respected that there were different opinions on the creation of the world.
However, she said: "The message we wanted to send was to avoid creationism passing itself off as science and being taught as science. That's where the danger lies."
In 2006, the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano carried the comments of Professor Fiorenzo Facchini who said intelligent design is not science and that teaching it to students alongside the theory of evolution would confuse them.
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