What's next, "teach all sides" of the gravity debate? or the germ theory of disease debate?
Are we going to mandate ignorance in the public schools?
https://ncse.com/news/2019/01/creat...xy2gQi_Fv2r0lFENJmei3tFzuUxA5zCca_iWmKg81BmKg
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Indiana's Senate Bill 373 would, if enacted, provide that "[t]he governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation." The bill was introduced on January 10, 2019, and referred to the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development.
The sponsor of the bill, Dennis Kruse (R-District 14), has a long history of sponsoring antievolution legislation.
The teaching of "creation science"* in the public schools was ruled to be unconstitutional by a federal court in McLean v. Arkansas (1982) and by the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987); the legal director of the ACLU of Indiana observed, of SB 89 in 2012, that the bill is clearly unconstitutional and would invite litigation.
* quotation marks are sorely needed here, since science has nothing to do with it
Are we going to mandate ignorance in the public schools?
https://ncse.com/news/2019/01/creat...xy2gQi_Fv2r0lFENJmei3tFzuUxA5zCca_iWmKg81BmKg
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Indiana's Senate Bill 373 would, if enacted, provide that "[t]he governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation." The bill was introduced on January 10, 2019, and referred to the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development.
The sponsor of the bill, Dennis Kruse (R-District 14), has a long history of sponsoring antievolution legislation.
The teaching of "creation science"* in the public schools was ruled to be unconstitutional by a federal court in McLean v. Arkansas (1982) and by the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987); the legal director of the ACLU of Indiana observed, of SB 89 in 2012, that the bill is clearly unconstitutional and would invite litigation.
* quotation marks are sorely needed here, since science has nothing to do with it