Creationism lives on in US public schools
New Scientist on the ongoing and highly determined efforts of creationists to insert their religion based ignorance into American science classes:
Mills has now made public his desire to change the process for selecting biology textbooks statewide. In one Louisiana township, Livingston Parish, creationist board members have proclaimed their desire to have creationism taught alongside evolution in the next academic year. “This is happening with no outcry from the media or from the scientific community in Louisiana,” Forrest says.
Since Dover, states wanting to teach alternatives to established science have used deliberately vague language. In 2008, Louisiana passed a law requiring “open and objective discussion” of climate change, evolution and human cloning. Five years after the landmark case, the battle for science education continues. But for the plaintiffs and their representatives this does not detract from the achievement. Their lead attorney, Eric Rothschild, sums it up: “If we’d lost, intelligent design would be all over the place now”.
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