Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law

[Charlie Bell]

On 29/06/2008, at 3:17 AM, William T Goodall wrote:

> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080627-louisiana-passes-first-antievolution-academic-freedom-law.html
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> "Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law
> By John Timmer | Published: June 27, 2008 - 02:13PM CT

Here we go again. Hopefully this time, unlike in Dover, it'll get to  
the Supreme Court, and what they're *actually* proposing gets aired  
nationally and world wide. There are creationists groups active in the  
UK - "Truth In Science"; Australia (Ken Ham's from here originally,  
and the ICR is active here, with a major creationist camp happening on  
Philip Island early next year); and New Zealand.

I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't reads the decision in Tammy  
Kitzmiller et al vs Dover Area School District in its entirety. For  
several years, the creationists were saying "give us our day in court"  
and the Discovery Institute was looking for a test case to get their  
Wedge Strategy in place, and they got that chance in Dover.

Straight after Dover they switched to the "teach the controversy"  
thing (as if their entire strategy since the 80s wasn't based on  
pointing out flaws in evolution or geochronology...). And they've  
managed to finally dilute their message enough to get it through now.  
However, now it's a lot easier for a teacher to slam creationism in  
class as much as it's easier for them to teach it. Be careful what you  
wish for...

Charlie.