DI, "Model Academic Freedom Statute on Evolution." http://www.academicfreedompetition.com/freedom.php The model
statute proposed by DI would make it illegal to exclude ID by mandating "the
full range of scientific views" on evolution must be allowed. Unlike some proposed legislation, it does not
mandate the range to be taught. But
neither does it demonstrate that there actually is a "range" of legitimately
scientific views on fundaments of evolution like common descent or the
antiquity of life. [Indeed, would this
statute mandate that a 10,000 year age for the origin of life be allowed to be
taught?] The model statute also protects
students rights to be evaluated only on what they understand, not on what they
personally believe. This is a different
but important issue, and is not irrelevant to recent cases of viewpoint
discrimination.
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