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ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
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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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