Florida Edu. Standards adopted; Evo compromise

The debate over the new Florida Science education standards has been closed. The standards were accepted with one revision, the addition of "scientific theory" or similar language to every scientific concept mentioned. (Eg, "scientific theory of evolution". "scientific theory of gravity" etc). It's not overtly creationist language but the obvious target, considering the arguments that were used to put the new language in place, is to allow creationist discussion in the classroom.

The Pandas Thumb announcement:
http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2008...#comments-open

The DI doesn't like it either:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/02...educati_1.html

Florida Citizens for Science Blog; ATM, they have a running description of the issues being brought up at the public hearing. No announcement of the decision at the time of my OP.
http://www.flascience.org/wp/

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On "illegal" immigration:
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." -The Statue of Liberty

On the alleged connection between Hitler and Atheism:
"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." -Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter X

On gay marriage (or any other discrimination) and the Bible:
"God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean." -Paul the Apostle, Acts 10:28

Creationists, it does not matter what you call evolution; it is still the same thing. If your arguments have any merit at all, it would be irrelevant as to what people call it.

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Goodbye all.

Ahhhh...the continuous decline of US education.

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It is the opium of the people.


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the concession was inserting "scientific theory of"? i think it gives it more legitimacy if every mention of it mentions that it is the scientific theory of evolution. I just wish they would include that in front of plate tectonics.

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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evolution: 3 billion base pairs can't be wrong.

Judging from the OP, that is exactly what they did.

Students should also be taught that "theory" is the highest any idea in science can get, and how "Scientific Law" is a vestige of Baconian science.

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“Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.” --William of Conches (c. 1090 – after 1154)

Well at least they did not went with the taking snake.

ok sorry didnt read that carefully enough. then i got no problems with this.

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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evolution: 3 billion base pairs can't be wrong.

The scientific theory of infectious disease?

You know, I actually do like this as having to refer to all the most respected idea in the scientific would as the "scientific theory" will ruin the use of it as a slur. The scientific theory of relativity.

I see no problem.

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A lady holds her torch aloft,
she thinks she controls fire.
But fire can turn metal soft,
a molten pool her pyre.

Next on their agenda, no doubt, is to attack scientists who present Heliocentrism as a fact. Everyone knows it is just a theory.

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“Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.” --William of Conches (c. 1090 – after 1154)