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“In a recent article on EvolutionNews.org (a very deceptive name considering that Evolution News is part of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute) claims that “We [the Discovery Institute] are NOT seeking to have intelligent design included in textbooks or in classroom instruction. We only want factual errors corrected and legitimate scientific weaknesses of neo-Darwinism presented.” Essentially, this statement sums up the newest version of the Intelligent Design movement; it is the “teach the controversy” statement. The argument is that we should be teaching kids the controversy that exists in the scientific community regarding evolution. In other words, lets teach kids evolutionary theory and how it works, but also teach them that some scientists disagree with evolutionary theory. Let’s teach kids the strengths and weaknesses of evolution and let them decide for themselves if it is valid or not.” source...