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Cobb County, Georgia to Insert Disclaimers into Biology Textbooks

  • March 29th, 2002
Presented with petition of over 2300 signatures at last Thursday's Cobb County Board of Education meeting, officials decided to draft a "clarifying statement" describing evolution as "just one of several theories" explaining the diversity of life one earth. The statement is to be inserted into newly adopted science textbooks.

Over the objection of the standing room only crowd, the board voted unanimously to adopt the science textbooks, included in a $7.7 million package that also includes books for health and physical education.

Miller Responds to False Claim Regarding Santorum Language Significance

  • March 25th, 2002
At the March 11, 2002, panel discussion on evolution in front of the Ohio Board of Education, the Discovery Institute's Stephen Meyer claimed that encouragement to teach alternatives to evolution was part of the recently signed No Child Left Behind Act. Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller responded by using his computer to search the text of the law for the word "evolution" - unsuccessfully. Now anti-evolutionists are claiming that there is such language in the law and that Miller was being intentionally misleading.

Sen. Kennedy Says Intelligent Design Not Science

  • March 21st, 2002
In response to Senator Rick Santorum's March 14 op-ed piece in the Washington Times, which implied that Senator Edward Kennedy approved of teaching "intelligent design" in public school science classes, Kennedy explained in a March 21, 2002, letter to the Times that he does not; "intelligent design," he said, "is not a genuine scientific theory." The complete text of his letter:

Ohio's Draft Standards Earn an A from National Science Standards Expert

  • March 11th, 2002
Proposed creationist changes would be “shameful”, according to nationally recognized science curriculum expert.

March 11, Oakland, California — Ohio’s science education will improve from an F grade to an A if the new proposed statewide science standards are accepted as is, according to Dr. Lawrence Lerner, a nationally recognized expert on state science standards. But creationists may not allow that to happen.

NCSE Member Honored for Kansas Activism

  • March 11th, 2002
Congratulations to NCSE member Adrian Melott, who has won the 2002 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award of the American Physical Society. This award is given annually by the leading professional physics society "(t)o recognize outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society." Dr. Melott, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas, was cited "(f)or his outstanding efforts in helping to restore evolution and cosmology to their proper place in the K-12 scientific curriculum.

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