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The Blog for Monday, November 14, 2005

Creationism ...

    may be coming soon to a classroom near you (if it isn't there already):
    Next year, the state is scheduled for a routine review of science standards, and House Education Chairman Dennis Baxley calls it "a healthy time to have discussions of that nature." Education commissioner John Winn has refused to discuss the possibilities, other than to release a cryptic statement suggesting current standards "were written in a way that is neither inclusive nor exclusive to any one theory of human origin." Winn's new K-12 chancellor, Cheri Yecke, says she brings no agenda to change the curriculum but told a reporter she believes "God created heavens and the earth."

    These are not encouraging signs. Eight decades after the Scopes "monkey" trial, Christian conservatives are still pushing to treat religion as though it were a competing scientific theory. A federal judge is expected to rule soon on a Dover, Pa., school policy that requires instruction in intelligent design. But Dover voters didn't wait for his ruling. In Tuesday's elections, they gave the boot to eight of the nine School Board members who want intelligent design taught in ninth-grade science classes.

    Meanwhile, the Kansas State Education Board has decided that science no longer need limit itself to natural explanations. The educator in charge of Florida K-12 schools says she believes in creationism. President Bush says that "both sides ought to be properly taught." And some Florida science teachers are apparently doing so already.
    "Creationism in class" ("The fight over teaching intelligent design will come to Florida next year. But some of the state's science teachers already have a head start.")

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