OKLAHOMA BIOLOGY TEXTS WILL CONTAIN EVOLUTION DISCLAIMER

[Alexander Martynov]

Thu, 11 Nov 99 21:32 +0300 MSK Peter Rauch wrote to TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG:

> Yup. Again.  :>)   Peter R
>
> [excerpt from:]
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> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:55:59 -0500
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> To: SCIENCE-IN-THE-NEWS at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: Science In The New November 11, 1999
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> 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/0,1080,500056076-500092303-500343968-0,00.html
>
>

 Approximately for 5 last years I maintained the biological
evolution only as hypothesis and tryed  to pointed out
that deeply rooted in mind of biologists the word evolution
as axiomatic (especially for current situation when offten
taxonomy = phylogeny) is dogmatic, in really.
 But if mentioned in previous messages tendency will be continue,
I am affraid that will hard to explain where scientific discussions
about evolution, and where purely creationism.
 I am, mainly, want to speak, that often the concept of evolution
described in text-books and papers as if athours saw the
evolutionary process personally, like movie.

Alexander

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Alexander Martynov (doris at AM3963.spb.edu)
Zoological Institute
Sun, 14 Nov 99 22:13 +0300 MSK