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Teaching Evolution Update [12min]

This week, Dover voters ousted school board members who adopted a policy requiring that intelligent design be presented as an alternative to evolution in biology class -- while across the country, the Kansas board of education approved new science standards that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. Guest: Nick Matzke, public information project specialist, National Center for Science Education.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday"