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WZZM Newsreader #1 – The Republican candidate running for governor says the theory of intelligent design should be an option offered to public school students.
Newsreader #2 – Dick DeVos discussed the topic during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids today. WZZM 13 Peter Ross joins us with this vote 2006 report.
Reporter – Intelligent design assumes that an unseen intelligent force created some life forms, in contrast to the science of evolution. So for the first time, a controversial social issue has entered this campaign.
DeVos – Our students live in a complex world, and need to understand that alternatives.
Reporter – DeVos said Thursday that intelligent design, what some feel is an expression of religious faith, is a legitimate theory competing with the science of evolution first theorized by Charles Darwin.
DeVos – What I believe is that those ideas ought to be left and that question should be left as it is under Michigan law should be left to these local school districts, and to the parents to make those choices.
Reporter – But a nationally recognized evolution educator says its not that simple.
Professor Greg Forbes – What we teach in a publicly funded class room should meet the criterion of science.
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