[lbo-talk] Florida will teach evolution but only as theory

[Matt]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:22:52PM +0500, uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> Reuters.com
> 
> Florida will teach evolution but only as theory
> http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1929595320080219?sp=true
> 
> Tue Feb 19, 2008
> 
> By Michael Peltier
> 
> TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida education officials voted on
> Tuesday to add evolution to required course work in public schools but only
> after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely
> a theory.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1929595320080219?sp=true

The most distressing words here are "only as" and "merely".

The real healdine ought to be _Journalists Continue Inexcusable
Ignorance of the Scientific Method_

Matt, typing from a computer built as a result of understanding the
merely, only theoretical, theories of electromagnetism, solid state
physics, quantum mechanics, etc, while having his ass firmly attached
to a chair due to the merely theoretical gravitation...

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