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The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated that it sees no place for either on the science curriculum.
It has also defined "Intelligent Design", the idea that life is too complex to have arisen without the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion, along with "creationism".

Responding to a petition on the Number 10 ePetitions site, the government said: "The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science lessons. The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science. "

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Two of the five active tenured astronomy professors in the department that denied tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez at Iowa State University are connected to a widely-publicised statement that denounces intelligent design as "creationist pseudoscience."
Professor Steven Kawaler, the Program Coordinator for astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ISU, actually signed the statement, and he provides a link to both the statement and an article about it on his website.
University Professor Lee Anne Willson, meanwhile, is married to ISU mathematics professor Stephen J. Willson, who also signed the anti-ID statement.
Known as "Project Steve," the anti-ID statement was the brainchild of the pro-Darwin National Centre for Science Education. The statement declares that "it is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including 'intelligent design,' to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation's public schools."

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The popular lecture by Professor Steve Jones (UCL Biology), ‘Why Intelligent Design is Stupid’ – the first in this term’s UCL Lunch Hour Lectures – will be repeated in the larger venue of the UCL Bloomsbury theatre on Friday 1 December 2006.
The lecture will start promptly at 1.15pm and last 40 minutes. It is free, with no ticket required and no need to book. However, spaces are limited, and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

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