Board votes down evolution analysis (CNN/AP)

[eppur_se_muova]

Recommendation to 'critically analyze' theory rejected

Thursday, March 9, 2006; Posted: 10:21 a.m. EST (15:21 GMT)

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- The state Board of Education on Wednesday rejected a state panel's proposal to change high school standards on evolution by calling on students to "critically analyze" the theory.

Science teachers had complained that although critical analysis is part of all science, the wording was really a backdoor attempt to force educators to teach religious-based alternatives. In a 10-6 vote, board members agreed.

The Education Oversight Committee, a school reform panel made up of lawmakers, teachers, parents and other community members, recommended the change last month. Panel member Senator Mike Fair, R-Greenville, has said it was intended to introduce students to challenges to evolutionary theory.

Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum, a Democrat, has called the effort "a ploy to confuse the issue of evolution so that ultimately evolution won't be taught."
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/03/09/teaching.evolution.ap/index.html

Hey, fundies -- THEY'RE NOT BUYING IT! You can't sneak it in the back door, gotta bring out the jackboots.

[sutz12]

1. A small victory for rational thought.....nt

[roguevalley]

2. bravo, South Carolina. If alaska and SC can protect truth, everyone

else can.