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HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN THE WAR BETWEEN “EVOLUTION” AND ITS CRITICS

The EDITORIAL position of the National Review on the subject of Intelligent Design and Evolution in the schools has just been published.

That evolution is a national issue is almost entirely the result of mistakes by the Supreme Court. It has first set itself up as the regulator of all local governmental practices that have religious overtones. Compounding the error, it has decided to try to figure out the motivations of all those practices. So a local school board’s failure to teach evolution becomes, literally, a federal case: a violation of the Court’s version of the separation of church and state.

Whatever the outcome of the debate over evolution, it should be conducted at the local level. A federal judiciary that sees fit to police the boundaries between science and religion has already lost sight of its own boundaries.

This is not the first time that I’ve thought our nation would be improved by following the advice of the editors of National Review.

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