{"id":12708,"date":"2008-02-20T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/20\/florida-evolves.html"},"modified":"2008-02-20T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:46:05","slug":"florida_evolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/florida_evolves.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida evolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida’s state board of education has (gasp!) adopted new guidelines that (shock! horror! dismay!) require that evolution be taught in schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What sort of crazy-ass atheistic commie regime are they running down there, anyway?<\/p>\n

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A bitter debate over how to teach evolution in Florida’s public schools ended — at least temporarily — with a compromise Tuesday. The state Board of Education voted 4-3 in Tallahassee to adopt new science standards that for the first time require evolution to be taught.<\/p>\n

The majority selected a last-minute alternative rather than the original document created by scientists and science teachers after months of work. That compromise, introduced late last week, inserts the phrase “the scientific theory of” in front of evolution and certain other concepts.<\/p>\n

Opponents, who disliked both options, plan to shift their fight to the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember, this was by a mere 4-3 vote.<\/p>\n

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The adopted version, as the original, spells out for the first time that evolution must be taught in schools as the “fundamental concept underlying all of biology” and one that it is “supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence.”<\/p>\n

[…] More than 10,000 people logged onto the Florida Department of Education’s Web site to comment on the new standards. Many wrote that teaching evolution — the theory that all living things evolved from a shared common ancestry — was in direct conflict with their religious faith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No doubt God will smite those 4 wicked state school board members any moment now.<\/p>\n

I would critique the whole “it conflicts with my religious faith so it shouldn’t be taught as science” thing, but my vision just goes all red whenever I contemplate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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