How to Teach the Evolution Controversy

If you are a biology teacher who feels that Darwinism should not enjoy special legal protection from scientific criticism in the classroom, here is an idea for you. I suggest you distribute the news story below to your students, word for word. You then have two alternatives:

Identify the report as a 1980 New York Times News Service article (a photocopy is here). If you identify the source, you may be safe from direct persecution, in which case you have found a way to "teach the controversy"...