Jonathan Adler, at The Volokh Conspiracy, responds to the idea of Intelligent Design teaching as an academic-freedom issue. Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, writes:
There is nothing scientific about these “alternatives” to evolution. Encouraging attacks on evolution in high school science classes promotes academic fraud not “academic freedom.” If school boards or state legislatures want public school students to be exposed to competing theories about the origins of life — a question evolutionary theory does not address — they should do it in a world religion or social studies class and leave science alone.May 2, 2008
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