Professor says sorry for intelligent design email
Associated Press in Kansas
Wednesday November 30, 2005
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A University of Kansas professor apologised for an email that referred to religious conservatives as "fundies" and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face".

Prof Paul Mirecki's department has removed the reference to mythology in the course title and he said he would teach it "as a serious academic subject".

Intelligent design - the belief that a higher power created the universe - was added to the curriculum after the Kansas education board decided to include more criticism of evolution in science teaching. link