Posted AT 3:19 AM EDT on 23/11/07
The designs behind Judgment Day
For all its boasts of being the land of the free, America still has its fair share of rigid institutions and sacred cows - with religion in public school topping the list.
While the concept of daily prayer was removed from the American education system decades ago, the rules governing the teaching of evolution are hazier and appear to hail from another century. Incredible as it seems, Darwinism is still a dirty word in some corners of the United States.
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