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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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