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In the discussions about the Origin of Life, has Intelligent Design launched a new passionate debate. This conception is related to creationism and opposed itself to a Darwinian explanation of the creation of life. ID is often understood as “neocreationism”. ID is particularly controversial. There is a big row amongst the scientific community whether to recognise ID as a science or not. By qualifying ID as a science, its exponents tend to give ID a certain caution. Other scientists (most of them actually) deny any scientific criteria to ID and refuse to see it as science. ID is not only a matter of struggle for the scientific community. Issues of politics and religion are also at stakes with ID. This theory could indeed be a path for Christians to reintroduce religion into American public school’s curricula. That’s why the late rulings concerning ID are particularly interesting: The courts made clear that ID was not a science and that it should not be taught into public schools, thus striking down the decisions of school’s board enforcing ID into science’s classes.
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