Evolution furor heats up (new) | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Evolution furor heats up
Critics, including former President Jimmy Carter, say state looks silly

By MARY MacDONALD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia political leaders said Friday that they're embarrassed that the state is at the center of a furor over evolution.

Former President Jimmy Carter said the state school superintendent's efforts to remove references to evolution from science curriculum standards will handicap students and damage Georgia's reputation.

"As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students," the former president declared. "Nationwide ridicule of Georgia's public education system will be inevitable if this proposal is adopted."

Cox, who could not be reached for comment on the issue Friday, proposed editing out the word "evolution" as part of a massive revision of the state teaching curriculum. The teaching plans for high school biology and sixth-grade Earth science would replace references to "evolution" with "biological changes over time," a phrase that scientists describe as meaningless.

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[StClone]

1. Dear Superintendent Kathy Cox you're proof

That man indeed evolved from a lower form of intelligent life.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

2. Inability to accommodate science+spirituality=fear of thought. n/t

[schultzee]

3. the superstitous peasants are in charge and we are going

back to the 13th century.

[JCMach1]

4. Not, it's the elite using this as a tool...

to quiet the peasants...


Remember Wat Tyler--? Revolution comes from below.


"You'll wait a long time for a Beverly Hills Coup..." -Billy Bragg

[xchrom]

5. i can't even believe

something as low rent as this is even in the news.
kathy cox should be fired.