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The Institute is opposed to teaching ID in public schools, West told the Daily Record. "This is not a particularly coherent way of going about it. It is confusing."

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More on Intelligent Design in Dover, Pa.:

• In defense of intelligent design | Human DNA contains more organized information than the Encyclopedia Britannica. If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. But when seen in nature, it is explained as the workings of random forces. (Bruce McLarty, Searcy Daily Citizen, Ark.)
• 2 school boards push on against evolution | A school district in Pennsylvania and another in Georgia have pressed ahead with their challenges to the teaching of evolution in their public schools. (New York Times)
• Pa. students learn 'intelligent design' | High school students heard about "intelligent design" for the first time Tuesday in a school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution. (Associated Press)

Education:

• ASU continues fight over CLS lawsuit | ASU, student club pledge to carry out legal battle. The club said the non-discrimination clause discriminates against its beliefs. The CLS asks all members to sign a statement of faith before they can join, which it feels non-Christians and homosexuals cannot abide by. (ASU Web Devil, Arizona State University)
• CLS showdown has plenty at stake | We hope this strong performance by President Michael Crow and his legal team will set a precedent against discrimination of all types, not just against non-Christians and homosexuals. (Editorial, ASU Web Devil, Arizona State University)
• Religious group, IRCC spar over ban of 'Passion' | School says it's being sensitive to its high school-age students. (Palm Beach Post)
• Muslims seek school recognition of holidays | Hillsborough schools are considering allowing absences for Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan. (St Petersburg Times, Fla.)

Faith schools in Britain:

• Muslim schools undermining society, alleges school chief | Muslim leaders are livid. On the heels of the report that a state-funded Islamic school in Bradford topped the league table of school with the best growth of their people, the head of Ofsted, David Bell accused Muslim faith schools of failing to prepare pupils for life and undermining British society. He claimed that the growth of schools offering an Islamic education posed a threat to stability. (Hindustan Times, UK edition)
• 'Faith schools not breaking Britain' | Muslim leaders, in Birmingham, have criticised the Chief Inspector of Schools for claiming Islamic schools could undermine Britain's "coherence as a nation". (Birmingham Post, UK)
• What our children need | Muslim schools must be brought into the state sector (Osama Saeed, The Guardian, UK)
• Muslim schools intolerant? 'But we are taught about Judaism and Christianity' | "Yes, I'm Muslim but I'm also British," said Asilah Khan, 15. She is proud to be both. Asilah goes to the 700-pupil Leicester Islamic Academy - one of the first independent Muslim schools to be established in the UK. (Independent, UK)
• Praise God and put me on the waiting list | Scheming to get my children a better education isn't really the only thing that now draws my family to the Sunday morning service (Urban Fox, Times, London)

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