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Texas Mulls How Biology Should Be Taught
Liz Carpenter, who served as press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson and was appointed to posts by four presidents, urged the board not to 'water down the strength of the science curriculum.'
'Texans with our wide spaces and blue skies believe in freedom, I think and resent more than anyone being throttled,' Carpenter said. 'And I don't want to be defined by extremists who want to curtail knowledge of any kind.'
The Discovery Institute has been linked to a theory known as 'intelligent design' -- a belief that species did not evolve by natural selection but instead progressed according to a plan or design.
� April Castro Newsday/AP Sept 11 2003