Huzzah!
A federal judge has ordered that stickers placed in science textbooks in a Metro-Atlanta county, cautioning students that evolution is just a theory and should be viewed skeptically, must be removed.
A small but important victory.
See, Prisoner6655321 is right, the world is becoming more anti-religious!
I’m a little unnerved that I need to say something I’d expect to hear from Huerta88 in this context, but…
No, it’s not true that “evolution disclaimers in textbooks are unconstitutional.”
What happened in this case is that the school board caved to a fundamentalist group who were demanding the disclaimer, thus illegally appearing to endorse a religious view. The judge was quite explicit that their opinion, as opposed to the methodological truth, about what a “theory” was, and their insistence on the use of something that said “evolution is a theory not a fact,” were the underlying basis for the school board’s ordering the stickers to be placed.
It was therefore an unconstitutional endorsement of a religious view, and he ordered the stickers removed in consequence.
Something included in a textbook that explored the actual meaning of “theory” in scientific use, distinguished the evidence for evolution from the well-founded theory of how it transpires, etc., would not be such a kowtowing to fundamentalism.
:victory dance:
But what the hell will I do with my satirical stickers now?!
I prefer this version (same author) myself.
Geez, PC, give a dog a break – not much room to work w/ in a thread title, you know. 
Was doing headline style there. Maybe should have used “declared”. But even thought about omitting the verb altogether.
Didn’t mean to imply that disclaimers were unconstitutional per se. Just sending out the good word on how the Cobb County case has been decided.
The clarification is welcome in any case.
Btw, if anyone wants to read some really tragic and hilarious idiocy, try googling “Cobb County Georgia” and clicking the news links sometime. Those guys take the cake.
In this month’s issue of Scientific American, there is an editorial on said stickers. I read it, not having heard about this, issue and was dump founded. Glad the stickers are gone, though.
Maybe now intelligent design theory will have to be taught in the class where it belongs, Philosophy.
Many people don’t know what a theory is. A theory is NOT an unproven assumption, it IS an explanation for whay something happens. This means that when Darwin put forward his theory of evolution, he wasn’t saying, “Guess what? Evolution happens!” He (and most scientists of the day) already knew that. He said, “I’ve figured out how evolution happens!”