AS New 杏吧原创 went to press, one of the front-runners for the Republican US presidential nomination was a politician who does not believe in evolution.
Mike Huckabee, who surprised pundits with his rapid rise from obscurity by winning the Iowa caucus last week, believes God played a role in creation and that the human race could not have come about by 鈥渁ccident鈥�. None of the other remaining candidates has denied evolution.
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Huckabee鈥檚 rise may reignite the debate over intelligent design, which has been relatively quiet in the US since a judge ruled in 2005 that it should not be taught in Pennsylvania public schools. It comes as the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine release a new edition of a key text in that debate, . It directly addresses intelligent design, and is an attempt to improve the way teachers, scientists and the media communicate understanding about evolution.
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