Re that Mathews notion on evolution: Oy vey, Jay - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 14 Jan 12My unrivaled colleague, Jay Mathews, wrote a column urging Republican Rick Santorum to stay in the presidential race so that he can promote his belief that high schools should discuss alternatives to evolutionary theory. Jay notes that when he suggested in 2005 that high school biology classes would be improved if students debated Darwinism and intelligent design - as if, apparently, they had equal claims of scientific legitimacy - he got a lot of letters telling him he was an idiot, and even a dangerous one. Jay, of course, is the most accomplished education reporter on the planet, which makes this particular line of thinking so unacceptable.