Ethics

Florida Standards Adopted

By Ed Brayton

The Florida Board of Education voted 4-3 to adopt the proposed science standards. The only change they made was to refer to evolution as "the scientific theory of evolution." That's not so bad. Evolution is, after all, a scientific theory. I still think they should have insisted that every other theory in science be labeled the same way in the standards though.

Reactions? The Discovery Institute is quite unhappy. They wanted those famous "arguments for and against evolution" as part of the standards and didn't get it. At the very least, this is a huge improvement over the old standards, which didn't mention evolution at all. The new standards correctly call evolution "the fundamental concept underlying all of biology." That is precisely what it is.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).