{"id":7712,"date":"2005-01-13T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T04:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/13\/unstuck.html"},"modified":"2005-01-13T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T04:33:21","slug":"unstuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/unstuck.html","title":{"rendered":"Unstuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/ID\/6822028\/\" target=\"_blank\">judge has ruled<\/a> that the Cobb County school district must remove their goofy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/disclaimer_stic.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;evolution is just a theory&#8221; stickers<\/a> from their biology textbooks.  US District Judge Clarence Cooper noted:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">By denigrating evolution, the school board appears to be endorsing the well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationism or variations thereof, even though the sticker does not specifically reference any alternative theories. [&#8230;] While evolution is subject to criticism, particularly with respect to the mechanism by which it occurred, the sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>As the ACLU pointed out, any number of other &#8220;scientific theories&#8221; in the texts were not subject to similar disclaimers, which made it even more clear that evolution was being singled out for &#8220;consideration&#8221; versus other &#8220;scientific&#8221; theories.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>The district is busy <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/050113\/sfth072_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">blaming their lawyer<\/a> for the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that the Cobb County school district must remove their goofy &#8220;evolution is just a theory&#8221; stickers from their biology textbooks. 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