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Nature 440, 720-721 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440720b; Published online 5 April 2006
Doubts over evolution block funding by Canadian agency
Hannah Hoag
A Canadian federal agency has denied funding to a science-education researcher partly because of its doubts about the theory of evolution.Brian Alters, director of the Evolution Education Research Centre at McGill University in Montreal, had proposed a study of the effects of the popularization of intelligent design — the idea that an intelligent creator shaped life — on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators and policy-makers.
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