The Great Non-Problem of Evolution vs. Creationism

In "Counter Evolutionary," Education Week recounted in intriguing detail the story of a 15 year-old straight-A student named Danny Phillips at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colo. ( "Counter Evolutionary," Nov. 20, 1996.)

Danny is a self-proclaimed Christian fundamentalist who sued his local school district over the "teaching" of the theory of evolution. Although he believes that "God created everything individually according to its own kind" and that "there is a whole lot of purpose and intelligence behind what we see," he is not asking that the theory of evolution by natural selection not be taught in the schools, nor does he want "creationism" or "creation science" taught in its stead.

What he wants, he says, is that "the schools ... teach the theory of evolution as a theory. Treat it as they do science and present the evidence for and against it. Otherwise, the school is in essence censoring...