Alabama One Of Three States To Shirk Evolution
You've got to love and laugh at Alabama, one of three states with no questions about evolution on the science portion of the high school graduation exams, the Associated Press reports.
Education Week magazine, not free online, surveyed more than 20 states that use graduation exams and found that Alabama, Ohio and South Dakota were the only ones without evolution questions.
The biology textbooks used in Alabama's public schools contain a disclaimer - approved by the State Board of Education - that says "evolution is a controversial theory."
Critics say the disclaimer intimidates teachers who want to fully cover evolution, the AP reports.
You think?
Maybe critics should also suggest that the poor children in Alabama's schools might be the one's who pay in life, if they don't know enough about science to compete for jobs in the future. Understanding evolution is critical to understanding science. It is not a controversial theory among scientists, only among homo boobiens.
Comments
Evolution.... is simply a theory !
Do schools not teach the meaning of the word ?
Glynn's family might have come from monkeys but I don't think mine did !
Allthough , I do love BANANAS :)
Mike D.
Posted by: Mike D. | December 6, 2005 08:05 PM
Somehow I missed this comment. Maybe the e-mail notice got lost in the blog spam.
Evolution is NOT "simply" a theory. It is THE THEORY accepted by 99.9 percent of scientists for how species evolved from the muck on planet earth.
If your family didn't come from moneys, birds or protoplasm in the ocean, they do not exist.
Don't you think George W. Bush sort of resembles a monkey? He certainly talks sort of like a monkey. Isn't that proof enough?
Posted by: fast2write | December 7, 2005 11:22 PM