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Teaching Evolution and Intelligent Design
This bill requires Arizona public schools to teach intelligent design alongside evolution when teaching about evolution.
What This Bill Does
- Requires public schools to teach intelligent design if they teach evolution by natural selection.
Who It Names or Affects
- Arizona public school students and teachers
- School districts that decide what is taught in science classes
Terms To Know
- evolution by natural selection
- The theory explaining how species change over time through the process of natural selection.
- intelligent design
- A concept suggesting that certain features of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than random processes.
Limits and Unknowns
- Does not specify how schools should teach or balance the two theories.
- The bill has passed both chambers but its final status is unclear as it may need further action before becoming law.