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Surrounded by University of Wisconsin professors, state Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, introduced legislation at the Capitol Tuesday that would exclude the teaching of intelligent design and creationism from science education in the state.

Berceau said she was prompted to draft the bill as a means to stop the “undermining” of science instruction by “pseudo-science” and to boost the state's science standards.

“Every major scientific professional organization has stated clearly that ID is not science,” Berceau said. “In spite of all of this, the pressure to introduce intelligent design into science curricula, and to challenge established scientific ideas like evolution, continues abated.”

Though it would prohibit the teaching of ID and creationism in science classes, the legislation would allow those ideologies, and other related ideologies, to be taught as a part of other curricula.

“It does not ban the discussion of intelligent design or any other ideology in schools in non-scientific contexts,” Berceau said. “It simply states that if something is presented as science, it must actually be science.”

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But John Morris, of the Institute for Creation Research in California, said ID and creationism are just as science-based as others say evolution is.

“I think evolution is on very shaky ground scientifically,” Morris said. “The only way that it can continue is if people pass laws so nobody can talk about the alternatives, because if the door is open, evolution will lose.”

Additionally, Morris said evolution is a form of religion and history, but not sound science.

“Evolution is obviously not happening today,” Morris said. “If it happened, it happened in the unobserved past. Science has to do with the observed present.”

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