by Gilbert Reilhac, Reuters News Agency
The Washington Times Daily, page A10
26 Jun 2007
Strasbourg, France — Europe’s main human rights body yesterday canceled a scheduled vote on banning creationist and intelligent design views from school science classes, saying the proposed resolution was one-sided.
The resolution, which the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly was expected to vote on yesterday, said attacks on the theory of evolution were rooted “in forms of religious extremism” and amounted to a dangerous attack on scientific knowledge.
Believers in creationism or intelligent design argue that some life forms are too complex to have evolved in accordance with Charles Darwin’s theory. read more…
