It is actually hard to believe that in 2010 we are still discussing anti-evolution ideas in the public schools. Sad but true.
The National Center for Science Education announced a bill in Mississippi, House Bill 586, is the first legislation on antie-volution this year.
House Bill 586, introduced on January 12, 2010, and referred to the House Education Committee, would, if enacted, require local school boards to include a lesson on human evolution at the beginning of their high school biology classes. The catch: "The lesson provided to students ... shall have proportionately equal instruction from educational materials that present scientifically sound arguments by protagonists and antagonists of the theory of evolution."
Seems this is a back-ended way to have creationism discussed in public schools.
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