[lbo-talk] Welcome to The Evangelical Condition

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Mon Nov 8 13:19:30 PST 2004


Welcome to The Evangelical Condition

(sorry, I realize it isn't "true" but I don't think this matters in a post-realist Bushevik world: we create our own reality.

Evolution case opens in Georgia court

By Kristen Wyatt http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2004/11/08/evolution/print.html

Nov. 8, 2004 | ATLANTA (AP) -- A warning sticker in suburban Atlanta science textbooks that says evolution is "a theory, not a fact" was challenged in court Monday as an unlawful promotion of religion.

The disclaimer was adopted by Cobb County school officials in 2002 after hundreds of parents signed a petition criticizing the textbooks for treating evolution as fact without discussing alternate theories, including creationism.

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Wisconsin district to teach more than evolution

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/06/evolution.schools.ap/

GRANTSBURG, Wisconsin (AP) -- School officials have revised the science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.

Members of Grantsburg's school board believed that a state law governing the teaching of evolution was too restrictive. The science curriculum "should not be totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," said Joni Burgin, superintendent of the district of 1,000 students in northwest Wisconsin.

Last month, when the board examined its science curriculum, language was added calling for "various models/theories" of origin to be incorporated.

The decision provoked more than 300 biology and religious studies faculty members to write a letter last week urging the Grantsburg board to reverse the policy. It follows a letter sent previously by 43 deans at Wisconsin public universities.



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