A new website designed to help teachers teach evolution encourages the use of religion when arguing in favor of the theory and uses federal tax dollars to do so.
The site, Understanding Evolution, was developed in part using a $450,000 grants from the National Science Foundation. According to a statement from the Discovery Institute, the website was put together jointly by the National Center for Science Education, or NCSE, a private group whose mission is "defending the teaching of evolution in the public school," and the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The purpose of the site is to help teachers teach evolution better.
The Discovery Institute claims taxpayer funding of the effort violates the Constitution.
"This is a scandalous misuse of federal tax dollars," said Dr. John West, associate director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. "It's clearly a...