Ethics

Back to the Future on Evolution

By Ed Brayton

This time in Maine, where at least one resident wants to party like it's 1967:

The decades-old controversy over the teaching of evolution in public schools is resurfacing in Somerset County.

A director of SAD 59 in the Madison area is urging the board to drop evolution from high school science curriculums on grounds that it's an unprovable theory that shouldn't be taught as fact.

Matthew Linkletter of Athens says neither evolution nor creationism belongs in a science curriculum.

Sorry, Matthew, the courts already ruled on this. Look up Epperson v Arkansas.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).