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Evangelical Christians, buoyed by the re-election of President Bush, are turning American schools into a battleground over wheth
Evangelical Christians, buoyed by the re-election of President Bush, are turning American schools into a battleground over wheth
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2010-01-15
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Evangelical Christians, buoyed by the re-election of President Bush, are turning American schools into a battleground over whether evolution explains the origins of life or whether nature was designed by an all-powerful force. In at least 18 states, campaigns have begun to make public schools teach "intelligent design" --a theory that nature is so complex it could only have been created by design——alongside Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
"It’s pretty clear that there is a religious movement behind intelligent design," said Steve Case, chairman of the Science Standards Committee, a group of educators that advises the Kansas Board of Education. The board will decide later this year whether to include intelligent design in biology classes.
Some scientists who espouse the theory say intelligent design does not question that evolution occurred, but how it occurred: They believe more was at play than random mutation and natural se-lection. The theory, they insist, does not support the religious concept of a creator. Those who advocate giving it equal treatment in schools have a different interpretation. "Intelligent design pro-motes a rational basis for belief in God," said John Calvert, managing director of the Kansas-based advocacy group Intelligent Design Network Inc.
Americans’ resistance to evolution is nothing new.
In 1925, Tennessee high school biology teacher John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution in violation of a state law favoring creationism, in one of the most celebrated trials in U. S. history. Scopes was convicted and fined $100, but the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the verdict on a technicality.
Critics, civil-liberties groups and many biology teachers see intelligent design being used as a version of creationism--the theory that God created the world as described in Genesis. The U. S. Supreme Court barred public school teaching of creationism in the 1980s for violating the separation of church and state.
They say the push for intelligent design in America’s schools comes from evangelical Christians, a group key to Bush winning a second term last November.
According to the passage, John Scopes was _______.
选项
A、a professor teaching history.
B、a biology teacher from a high school in Tennessee.
C、a scientist famous for his theory of revolution.
D、convicted and free for violating the law.
答案
B
解析
细节题。文章第五段提到John Scopes是“Tennessee high school biology teacher”(来自田纳西州高中的生物老师),所以正确答案是B。选项D在文中虽然被提到了,但是John Scopes的判决最后又被田纳西州最高法院推翻了(but the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the verdict…),所以D不是正确答案。
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