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What about the schools in Europe compared to the US so far as freedom for balanced debate relative to intelligent design vs evolution etc? Imo America the so called free is not free in this respect.
I don't know about the rest of Europe but in the UK, Intelligent design is seen the same as believing in a flat earth, it's just not an issue for serious discussion* - the idea of wasting precious schooltime to discuss such a non-issue would be seen as madness. The
only place it would be discussed is maybe in a social sciences class where students would be studying american society or the like or it might be mentioned in passing while discussing evolution - but no school would devote any serious amount of time to it.
* very very rarely, someone tries to get creationism into the classroom in a ad-hoc fashion but it's quickly stamped on.
Just asked the missus father (A science teacher), if they teach about Intelligent design in Belgium - his answer was pretty much what mine was.
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