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and not told it's the absolute truth." 1
Darwinist circles rushed to battle stations in the face of this deci-
sion. The interesting thing here is that instead of waging an intellec-

tual struggle, evolutionists resorted to legal means instead.
According to ABC News, Barry Lynn, a board member of Americans
United for Separation of Church and State, said that they would take
Cobb County school board to court. Thus, Lynn employed the same
method as that used by the Inquisition in the Middle Ages: he at-
tempted to suppress a scientific opinion by judicial means.
The Inquisition failed to maintain its dogmas—such as the
Ptolemaic model of the universe—and scientific discoveries won the

day. In the same way, Darwinist circles will fail to keep the dogma
known as evolution alive.
Following the state of Georgia, the Ohio State Education Board
required that students learn about the evidence against the theory of
evolution. An article by John G. West, of the Discovery Institute
founded in Seattle, a body which supports work critical of
Darwinism, described the collapse of Darwinism and the fanaticism

and primitive tactics of its proponents:
After months of debate, the Ohio State Board of Education unani-
mously adopted science standards on Dec. 10 that require Ohio stu-
dents to know "how scientists continue to investigate and critically
analyze aspects of evolutionary theory."
Ohio thus becomes the first state to mandate that students learn not
only scientific evidence that supports Darwin's theory, but also sci-
entific evidence critical of it… Ohio students will need to know
about scientific criticisms of Darwin's theory in order to pass gradu-
ation tests required for a high-school diploma.

Ohio is not the only place where public officials are broadening the
curriculum to include scientific criticisms of evolution. In

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