A California couple has taken their personal battle against the teaching of evolution out of the classroom and onto the Web, slapping the operators of a Web site at the University of California at Berkeley with a lawsuit. The site, Understanding Evolution, provides schoolteachers with resources for teaching students about the science of evolutionary theory.
The suit accuses two professors of biology at Berkeley, along with an official of the National Science Foundation, which has helped finance the site, of trying "to modify the beliefs of public school science students so they will be more willing to accept evolutionary theory as true." A lawyer for the Berkeley scientists said the suit rehashes the repeatedly rejected argument that teaching evolution is itself a religious act. (San Jose Mercury News)
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