时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

The Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania is being sued by a group of parents after it added “intelligent design” to the curriculum presented to high school biology students. Intelligent design, the parents argue, is false science. It is simply a clever phrase for creationism. Creationism is based on the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It is the belief that, in six days, God created the universe and all its creatures, including Adam and Eve, the first humans.


School district officials believe that evolution is merely a theory, and a flawed one at that. They argue that, if students taking biology must learn about evolution, these students must also learn about intelligent design.


“There are two sides to every story,” said Daryl Scopes, a district official. “Darwin’s theory of evolution is just that—a theory. Not one scientist has ever proved that it is valid 1. The whole idea is absurd. Darwin wants us to believe that all Earth’s animals, from ants to elephants, have one common ancestor—the sponge! How ridiculous is that? We decided 2 that our students must be aware of the true facts, as described in Genesis. God created the first man—Adam—in His own image. From one of Adam’s ribs 3, God then created Eve. God put Adam and Eve in charge of the Earth and all its creatures. Adam and Eve were perfect humans. But then they listened to the evil serpent and ate the forbidden fruit, and life for them—and us, their children—has been far from perfect ever since. That’s a beautiful story and, more important, a completely true story.”


 



1 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 ribs
n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹
  • He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
  • Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。
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accessory system
Acherontia
alkali neutralisation number
and so say all of us
anoplophora malasiaca
anthemions
bizarre
boondogglers
cat block
certificate management
chemonaive
churches of christ scientist
circumpolar distribution
Citrus cavaleriei
close-cycle
compression limit
concentrator unit control
consistency gage
crime of forgery
cross-axle
CRT spatial encoder
crude fiber
cu alloy
cycotiamine
de la Mare
desireless
Despenaderos
display processor management
DNA typing
draw on the future
drift bar
Dykehead
efferent artery
Elcho I.
electronic counter measure computer
end cutting nipper for cutting at a distance l
field of battle
floating optimal sample size
flow annulus
Fuka
gage travel
gene analysis
globbing
globus hystericas
go burst
guest VM
half cylinder
halogen quenched radiation counter tube
hammer head
helcystogramma trijunctum
high frequency ceramic filter
ICUMSA
incremental speed regulation
infinition
insufficiency of eyelids
international economic order
laminar base flow
liriomyza litorea
locally homogeneous space
mass expulsion control
mees
metanira
microjet
Neohorstia
nephrotoxicology
not entitled
online privacy
osteo-malacia
outbid each other
pitch class
potato witches-broom virus
print(ed) butter
prostatic abscess
pulse without the stomach qi
queueing form
reinsulates
resyncs
retrograde maneuver
rotary launder
sandbag
screw mandrel
screw-plug fuse
semiotic approach
serum heat stability test
short circuit brake
show much feeling for...
shuquee
Sidoarjo
sir thomas raffless
space explorations
spondiass
SSBadapter
standard input-output instruction
steam turbine blade
suttas
swallowforked
São Jose dos Dourados, R.
triangular surveying
turbinado (sugar)
typhlotransversostomy
under applied factory overhead
urohodin