Good news from Colorado! The House Committee on Education voted 7-6 on Monday to reject a creationist measure intended to undermine science education in the state.

House Bill 13-1089, the so-called “Academic Freedom Act,” would have required teachers at public schools and colleges to help students analyze the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories.”

Teachers would also have been required to “create an environment that encourages students to intelligently and respectfully explore scientific questions and learn about scientific evidence related to” evolution, global warming and human cloning.

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The Discovery Institute and its allies have religious objections to evolution, and this bill is a “wedge” to get their views into the public school classroom. The federal courts have already headed off a wide variety of other schemes, so Religious Right folks are trying an “academic freedom” maneuver.

https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/discovery-deception-derailed-colorado-lawmakers-scuttle-creationist-bill