OKLAHOMA BIOLOGY TEXTS WILL CONTAIN EVOLUTION DISCLAIMER

[Hubert Turner]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Peter Rauch wrote:
>Yup. Again.  :>)   Peter R
>
>[excerpt from:]
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>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:55:59 -0500
>From: inthenews <inthenews at SIGMAXI.ORG>
>To: SCIENCE-IN-THE-NEWS at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
>Subject: Science In The New November 11, 1999
>
>OKLAHOMA BIOLOGY TEXTS WILL CONTAIN EVOLUTION DISCLAIMER
>from The Associated Press
>
>TULSA, Okla. - A state committee has voted to require that new biology
>textbooks include disclaimers saying evolution is a "controversial theory."
>
>Last week's decision by the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee makes Oklahoma
>the latest state to officially challenge the way evolution is taught.
>
>This summer the Kansas Board of Education passed new testing standards,
>minimizing the importance of evolution. And last month, Kentucky's Education
>Department deleted the word "evolution" from its standards, replacing it
>with "change over time."
>
>http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500056076-500092303-500343
>968-0,00.html

The same disclaimer should of course be made compulsory for *all*
publications describing theories about the origin and/or development of
biological diversity, including all explicitly creationist texts and even
the Bible and the Koran!
Hubert T


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