Wisconsin Bill Would Ban Teaching of Intelligent Design

In Wisconsin, according to the Baptist Press, state representative Terese Berceau announced on Tuesday that she has introduced a measure that would ban the teaching of Intelligent Design in Wisconsin public schools. Backed by 13 University of Wisconsin professors, the bill requires that any material presented as science in the public school curriculum must be testable as a scientific hypothesis, must describe only natural processes, and must be consistent with a description or definition of science adopted by the National Academy of Sciences. Berceau said teachers could still describe Intelligent Design and creationism in social studies or philosophy, or could even be include it in a science class so long as students are told that the theory is not science.