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	For another view of biology book stickers and Darwin bookmarks see:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/evoops.htm

Enjoy and use them.

Martin


>This note came from the AAAS Advances Newsletter July 2005.
>
>
>Supporting the Science of Evolution
>
>On 10 June, AAAS joined 55 other science organizations in a 
>friend-of-the-court brief urging a Georgia appeals court to uphold a 
>U.S. District Court ruling. This previous ruling barred as 
>unconstitutional the actions of the Cobb  County, Georgia, school 
>board in affixing stickers to biology textbooks which said that 
>evolution is a theory, not a fact. The amicus brief supported the 
>ruling, saying that the sticker misleads the reader about the 
>scientific use of these terms, deprecates evolution, and confuses 
>students.
>
>AAAS is playing a prominent role in countering attempts in several 
>states to compromise the teaching of evolution. Read more and access 
>our special website, "Evolution on the Front Line," at 
>http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2005/0610georgia.shtml.
>
>
>
>-Kevin
>
>p.s the list of amicus brief filers is interesting in itself
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