- (Photo: AP / Mike Fuentes) As students step foot on campus for
another school year, an intelligent design proponent has offered
a few tips for the millions who will face the teaching of
evolution in their science classrooms. Tip number one, "never
opt out of learning evolution," says Casey Luskin, co-founder of
the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center,
according to the Discovery Institute. "In fact, learn about
evolution every chance you get." Having attended public schools
from kindergarten through his master’s degree at the University
of California, San Diego, Luskin was taught a "biased and one-
sided origins" curriculum – basically, the neo-Darwinian theory.
There was virtually no debate or dialogue on the theory when he
was learning it and "neo-Darwinian evolution was always taken as
a given." But Luskin does not regret having studied evolution as
much as he did. He says the more evolutionary biology he took,
the more he became convinced that the theory "was based upon
unproven assum