SBS TV is featuring a program about "Intelligent Design" tonight, at 8:30pm on "Dateline".
Here's the press release:
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On Dateline on SBS Television on Wednesday February 8 at 8.30pm, reporter Olivia Rousset looks at the debate on “intelligent design” currently raging in the United States which has now also spread to Australia.
For more than a decade the religious right in America has been trying to challenge evolution as the explanation of human origins. Various states tried to introduce creationism into science classes until the Supreme Court ruled against it.
The latest strategy is called “intelligent design” which holds that life, right down to the individual cell, is so complex and interrelated that a “designer” must be responsible for existence. Scientists across the world see this new push as nothing more than creationism repackaged as a 'pseudo science', but in Kansas the education board has changed the definition of science to allow supernatural causes to challenge evolution in science classes. It is an extraordinary and controversial decision which is an indication of how far the religious right in America is prepared to push its fundamentalist agenda.
DATELINE joins the science class in Kansas and takes a look at how this increasingly heated debate is developing by speaking with leading proponents on both sides.
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Might be worth watching for those interested in discussing it here.