Eric Owens, The Daily Caller — If Clayton Fiscus, a new Republican member of the Montana House of Representatives, has his way, intelligent design will soon be taught alongside evolution across the state.
On Nov. 5, Fiscus requested that a bill be drafted which would require Montana public schools “to teach intelligent design along with evolution,” according to the National Center for Science Education.
The freshman legislator’s expected bill is virtually certain to face court challenges in the event that it becomes law.
[...] The bill Fiscus wants drafted would not be the Montana legislature’s first foray into the continuing controversy over the teaching of evolution in schools. Most recently, in 2001, a bill was introduced that would have mandated the teaching of “competing theories of origin” rather than “the exclusive teaching of the theory of evolution,” notes the NCSE. That bill died in committee. » Read More
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