Re: Florida: Rewriting evolution?


Jason Spaceman wrote:
> Also see "'Design' passage might be cut" at
> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13364240.htm
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> From the article:
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> A biology textbook that sparked controversy over its mention of
> intelligent design will not include those references if used in
> Broward.
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> BY HANNAH SAMPSON
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> Broward County can have its own version of a hotly debated biology
> textbook -- without the passage that thrust the book into a national
> clash over the origin of life.
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> A textbook publisher has agreed to remove a passage about the
> controversial concept of ''intelligent design'' from Biology: The
> Dynamics of Life, one of two textbooks being considered for use in
> Broward high schools next year.
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> The book raised eyebrows here -- and was rejected in Palm Beach County
> -- because of a few sentences that appear on page 388, including:
> ``Many of the world's major religions teach that life was created on
> Earth by a supreme being.''
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> It continues: ``A variation of this belief is that organisms are too
> complex to have developed only by evolution. Instead, some people
> believe that the complex structures and processes of life could not
> have formed without some guiding intelligence.''
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> This concept, known as intelligent design, contradicts the theory of
> natural selection, which is widely accepted among scientists. It's the
> subject of a nationwide debate.
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> J. Spaceman

Yep, Broward County is an interesting place. While it has Rev. Kennedy,
it also has Wilton Manors, where the Mayor and most of the City
Commission is gay, not more than two miles for Rev. Kennedy's church.
It's very much like a county sized version of the US.

tulle

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