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 | | From: | Jason Spaceman | | Subject: | Alabama: Evolution debate seems to wane; board prepares to revise courses | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:52:34 -0500 |
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MONTGOMERY - For more than two decades, few issues have provoked more commotion
for the Alabama Board of Education than the debate over evolution, Charles
Darwin's theory that species change over time to produce new species.
Board meetings where science course guidelines or science textbooks were up for
approval have seen opponents and supporters of Darwin's theory square off.
During a meeting in 1995, Gov. Fob James impersonated an ape to mock Darwin's
theory and declared he was no descendant of a monkey.
In that same meeting, the board approved the nation's first state-sanctioned
sticker to be placed in biology textbooks warning students that evolution is a
"controversial theory" they should question.
Given that history, the school board could not be blamed for feeling a little
concerned going into next week's meeting and the scheduled discussion of a
proposed revision of science course guidelines.
But maybe board members don't need to worry.
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Read it at
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/110630255887320.xml
or http://tinyurl.com/466mj
J. Spaceman
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| | From: | hbarwood at troyst.edu | | Subject: | Re: Alabama: Evolution debate seems to wane; board prepares to revise courses | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 08:27:38 -0800 |
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| There is not any serious debate because the new science "standards" are
a joke. Evolution is not taught in Alabama public schools, primarily
because the majority of science teachers are trying to have their
students pass the exit exam, not actually learn anything.
HB
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| | From: | Daniel Kolle | | Subject: | Re: Alabama: Evolution debate seems to wane; board prepares to revise courses | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:54:25 -0600 |
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| On 21 Jan 2005 08:27:38 -0800, hbarwood@troyst.edu thought hard and
said:
>There is not any serious debate because the new science "standards" are
>a joke. Evolution is not taught in Alabama public schools, primarily
>because the majority of science teachers are trying to have their
>students pass the exit exam, not actually learn anything.
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>HB
But, truth be told, that happens in every school system, does it not?
And the AHSGE was waaay too fucking easy ("we have not had anyone pass
the History exam yet...").
P.S. How are things at Troy these days? It is on my list of
universities to go to.
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-Daniel "Mr. Brevity" Kolle; 16 A.A. #2035
Koji Kondo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Geirr Tveitt are my Gods.
Head of EAC Denial Department and Madly Insane Scientist.
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| | From: | rich hammett | | Subject: | Re: Alabama: Evolution debate seems to wane; board prepares to revise courses | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:12:44 -0000 |
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| In talk.origins hbarwood@troyst.edu sanoi, hitaasti kuin hämähäkki:
> There is not any serious debate because the new science "standards" are
> a joke. Evolution is not taught in Alabama public schools, primarily
> because the majority of science teachers are trying to have their
> students pass the exit exam, not actually learn anything.
As an Alabama expatriate, I feel something like the Iraqi
expats must feel as they watch their country being
destroyed by the war raging there.
rich
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