Debate heats up over creationism in classrooms
– reported by KHOU CBS Channel 11(¹)

Texas public schools aren’t supposed to teach it. But are some students in science classes hearing a lesson in religion?

Creationism in the classroom is a nationwide controversy that may be coming soon to a school near you.

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Intelligent design is the theory that evolution alone can’t explain how we came to be — that a higher force must have helped design us.

It’s a hot issue here and elsewhere.

In Kansas last month, the state board of education voted to teach doubts about evolution.

But at the same time, in a town in Pennsylvania voters ousted local school board members who tried to do the same thing there.

What about Texas?

Officially the state’s science curriculum for public schools does not recognize intelligent design, only the theory of evolution, which leaves science teachers like Debbie Cobb in a tough spot.

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