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Nature 435, 275 (19 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435275c; Published online 18 May 2005

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Evolution is a short-order cook, not a watchmaker

Chris Miller1

  1. HHMI, Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA

The visual shock of last week's 'intelligent design' cover was matched by the perceptiveness of your News Feature (Nature 434, 1062–1065; 2005) on the seepage of this slyly religious ideology into science curricula. This stuff should certainly be kept out of high schools, but I am ambivalent about its presence in our universities, where free discussion is of greater value than correctness — political, scientific or otherwise.

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