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We've been talking a lot about the need for clear goals + teaching the
scientific process (in re: why we can say evolution is a valid scientific
theory, and ID sure isn't). It looks like this is a problem in other areas,
too, apparently in the quality of high school science labs:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_sc/science_labs

[Speaking of our old unfriend, ID, I noticed that the lab article above
mentioned the importance and difficulty of teaching science, but not the
incredible venom the political right wing has unloaded on it. Recently
reported in USA Today, an Ohio preacher - apparently a very politically
powerful one - lambasted schools for failing to teach students that Hitler
was a fan of evolution. Really.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-02-christian-cover_x.htm]

Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
Science Center of Connecticut

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