Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Florida Picks Science Textbooks
Chris Kahn of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes:
"Eighty years since William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow's landmark debate over teaching human evolution in schools, the issue remains a political minefield.
"Religious groups and school boards in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Georgia and other states have succeeded in putting Charles Darwin's theory in competition with other explanations about how humans came to be.
"In Florida, school officials have tiptoed through the debate, approving education standards that don't mention evolution or big-bang theories while buying books that devote lots of pages to both."
