State Sen Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville has quietly filed legislation that would change the way Florida schools teach Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. And though it has yet to have its first hearing, the bill has the science community is up in arms. ...more

March 27, 2009

The state Board of Education voted Tuesday to add evolution to Florida's standards for teaching science to K-12 students, but defined it as a "scientific theory," a compromise that did little to appease opponents of the plan. ...more

February 20, 2008

TALLAHASSEE -- The state Board of Education voted 4-3 to write the teaching of evolution into the state's standards for teaching science to K-12 students -- but qualified its vote by adopting a proposal to add the words "scientific theory of" before the word "evolution." ...more

February 19, 2008

It is altogether possible that by the end of the day, Florida once again could be held up to the rest of the nation as more backward than Dogpatch, making even Mississippi look like a golden age of Enlightenment. ...more

February 19, 2008

Louise Laferriere's "Scientific Theory" was excellent and the scientific community made a good point in that letter to the editor pertaining to the teaching of evolution in a science environment classroom. As stated, especially as it pertains to DNA, "the theory of evolution explains a huge body of evidence, and it is predictive." The warning about the overuse of antibiotics was another good example of how bacteria may become resistant to control due to evolution. The example that, "Newton's theory of gravity contends that masses attract each other" being wrong is good news for those of us who teach people to fly small airplanes. (We don't want the Earth to be attracted to us until we are ready to land). In this perspective it was stated that gravity may not be used in aerospace. Actually, the physics of lift, thrust, weight (gravity), and drag are the elements affecting an airplane in flight. ...more

February 12, 2008

SEBRING — Scientists, professors, parents and a student apparently convinced the members of the School Board of Highlands County that their individual beliefs should not collectively affect their decision as a board on the issue of teaching evolution. Board members had stated their opposition to a portion of the proposed new state science standards, which state that evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology. The board members said recently that evolution should be taught as a theory, not as fact. At Tuesday's school board meeting, the board was scheduled to consider a resolution calling for the presentation of other theories of life in the study of science. ...more

February 7, 2008

Bill Dailey takes a dim view of teaching evolution in his letter of Jan. 15. He cites a 1914 book as evidence that evolution has been taught since then, with little to show for it. If he had bothered to look up evolution in the World Book Encyclopedia he would have found," Few public schoo1s 'included' evolution in the biology curricula for many years after the [Scopes]_trial." ...more

February 6, 2008

Florida's public school students for years have been studying "biological changes over time," but proposed revisions in state science standards for the first time would use another term for that concept: evolution. ...more

December 8, 2007