ONE of the city's most successful schools was under fire last night after revealing it will introduce lessons on how a "higher being" created the earth into its science curriculum.
The Blue Coat School will show pupils DVDs on Intelligent Design, which dismisses Darwin's theory of evolution. Instead it claims that some things cannot be explained so the universe must have had an intelligent creator.
But Government officials have condemned the programmes as "not appropriate to support the science curriculum".
And last night Cllr Paul Clein, Liverpool's executive member for education, branded the theory as little more than religious doctrine dressed up as a scientific theory.
He said: "Intelligent Design is a religious doctrine that has no place in the science curriculum.
"It is a variation on Creationism and is not a scientific alternative to Darwinism, it's a pseudo science.
"This theory has even been banned from lessons in US schools by a court and that is the birthplace of it.
"If schools want to teach it, it should be within religious education, not science lessons, although I would still have qualms about that.
"It is a matter for the school's governing body and I would suggest if parents are unhappy with it they should seek a way of holding the governors to account."
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