Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens

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Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America's political right, a battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are taught about the origins of life. Policymakers in 19 states are weighing proposals that question the science of evolution.

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A prominent effort is underway in Kansas, where the state Board of Education intends to revise teaching standards. That would be progress, Southern Baptist minister Terry Fox said, because "most people in Kansas don't think we came from monkeys."

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Some evolution opponents are trying to use Bush's No Child Left Behind law, saying it creates an opening for states to set new teaching standards. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a Christian who draws on Discovery Institute material, drafted language accompanying the law that said students should be exposed to "the full range of scientific views that exist."

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"The movement is a veneer over a certain theological message. Every one of these groups is now actively engaged in trying to undercut sound science education by criticizing evolution," said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "It is all based on their religious ideology. Even the people who don't specifically mention religion are hard-pressed with a straight face to say who the intelligent designer is if it's not God."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32444-2005Mar13?language=printer

Who gains if we voluntary give up our leadership in bioscience?

Look to see who is competing with the US -- and leading the US--
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Qui Bono - follow the money

so says one of the Xtian fascists.

that the next target (after evolution) will be general biochemistry, then organic chemistry.....

I think they should teach the full range of opinions, including alternative naming schemes for molecules and alternative reaction diagrams and products. Clearly my teacher was being incredibly narrow in giving me C's on all my exams. She was too enslaved to that materialist dogma they teach at whatever diploma mill she got her doctorate at.