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{{data.pair|Text|&ldquo; According to this account, vice presidential spokesman Alejandro Cabrera declared, "The [[Al Gore|vice president]] favors the teaching of [[evolution by natural selection|evolution]] in public schools. Obviously, that decision should and will be made at the local level and localities should be free to decide to teach [[creationism]] as well." .. According to Eisner, "Several hours" after the initial statement, Cabrera called Reuters again to insist "the vice president supports the right of school boards to teach creationism within the context of religious courses and not science courses."&rdquo; It's not clear that this claimed quote is accurate, or accurately reflects Gore's views; see [[2007-10-02 Collins and Broder and all the Raccoons played a sick, stupid old ball game|this]].}}<noinclude>
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<let name=data index=TextShort>&ldquo;According to Eisner, "Several hours" after the initial statement, Cabrera called Reuters again to insist "the vice president supports the right of school boards to teach creationism within the context of religious courses and not science courses."&rdquo;</let>
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This URL does not work as of 2009-06-29; the problem may be temporary or permanent. Another excerpt from the same article is [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037444/posts here], and a CNN report on the same news item is [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/27/president.2000/evolution.create/ here].
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<p>According to this account, vice presidential spokesman [[Alejandro Cabrera]] declared, "The [[Al Gore|vice president]] favors the teaching of [[evolution by natural selection|evolution]] in public schools. Obviously, that decision should and will be made at the local level and localities should be free to decide to teach [[creationism]] as well."</p>
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<p>According to Eisner, "Several hours" after the initial statement, Cabrera called [[Reuters]] again to insist "the vice president supports the right of school boards to teach creationism within the context of religious courses and not science courses."</p>
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It's not clear that this claimed quote is accurate, or accurately reflects Gore's views; see [[2007-10-02 Collins and Broder and all the Raccoons played a sick, stupid old ball game]].</let>
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