Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from textbooks

[maelorin]

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Kate Heneroty at 10:50 AM ET

[JURIST] The Cobb County School District [official website] on Tuesday agreed to remove anti-evolution stickers [ACLU press release] from its high school biology textbooks. In 2002, parents sued the suburban Atlanta school district claiming the stickers violated the separation between church and state by promoting religion in the classroom. In January 2005, a federal district court ordered the removal of the stickers [text; JURIST report]. The school board appealed the decision and in May the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit remanded the case [JURIST reports] to the district court on the issue of whether the school district's actions were "religiously neutral."

The settlement ends the legal battle which began when the district placed a sticker in 35,000 biology textbooks calling evolution "a theory, not a fact." To settle the case, the school district also agreed not to take any action which would undermine the teaching of evolution in high school classrooms.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution has more.

Comments

[obsoletechild.livejournal.com]

HALLELUJAH!!!

Thank GOD they did that. What a stupid, ignorant thing to put on a SCIENCE book anyway. Everything in a science textbook is a theory to some extent or another. It only contains hypotheses of varying certainty that haven't yet been disproven.

I don't see them putting disclaimers on the Bible:

The text contained herein has not been conclusively verified or disproven. As with all historical counts recorded by human beings, it may be subject to transcription error or colored by the beliefs or feelings of the author. The facts alleged in the Bible are nothing more than one recordation of a period in time, and are unverifiable in their ancient nature.

[verdigriis.livejournal.com]

Yay! Dance on their jelly!

You know, I just read the so called "wedge document" regarding the plan for ID, and it makes me absolutely furious. These people (ID proponents) have a concerted plan to impose their ideology on everyone else, and bugger the consequences. Although, I must admit, the so called descent of mankind into immoral chaos because of "materialistic world views" is kind of funny. Because modern civilisation is so aweful compared to the good old days...