Is the so-called war between faith and science exaggerated? Some people of faith — most prominently conservative Christians, including many evangelicals — interpret the Bible literally and reject the accepted scientific account of the Earth’s origin and the evolution of the human species. Biblical literalists have pushed to get their view, in such forms of [...]
In 2002, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Cleveland school voucher program in a decision that President Bush called a “landmark ruling” for parents, many voucher supporters thought a clear victory had been won. The road, however, has been much rockier, with negative court rulings, dueling research reports and continued debate about church-state constitutionality [...]
The debate on how best to teach youth about sex is polarizing the nation. Everyone wants to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease – and everyone agrees that abstinence would do that. But parents, medical professionals, religious groups and policy-makers are locked in fierce debate about what information to include in public schools’ sex [...]
Religion’s central place in national and international political issues has created a new push to teach students about religion in public schools. While many Americans, educators and parents are eager to have public school students learn more about religion, battles rage over how to do that. They include controversies and lawsuits over elective Bible classes [...]
A conflict on college campuses across the country pits student religious groups against school anti-discrimination policies. The groups want waivers from the policies so they can reject members or leaders who don’t subscribe to their beliefs, particularly on homosexuality. Student groups, often with help from conservative legal organizations, are filing lawsuits, seeking exemptions from the [...]
A decades-long conversation about the origins of the world has escalated into a roaring debate about how science should be taught in public schools. Should evolution be taught alone in science classes, or should it be accompanied by alternate theories such as “intelligent design,” the belief that the Earth and its life forms were guided [...]
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