Legislators: Evolution should be taught as 'theory'

Miami Herald by Marc Caputo | Feb. 6, 2008 (News Report)

TALLAHASSEE -- Top state legislators say they're ready to join the fight over putting the word ''evolution'' in Florida's public-school science standards to ensure that it's taught as just a theory and not as fact.
Rep. Marti Coley, future House Speaker Dean Cannon and state Sen. Stephen Wise, all Republicans, say they're considering filing legislation this spring that would specifically call evolution a ''theory'' if the state Board of Education ... Full Story »

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by Myrna E. Watanabe - Oct. 1, 2008

Given the constraints of modern journalism--word counts, etc.--this is a good story. It gives sufficient quotes on both sides of the issue. You come away from it thinking that the Florida legislators who want the change in terminology are insufficiently educated to understand the scientific definition of the word "theory." And the article makes that point several times.

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I would have included a quote from some of the major U.S. spokespeople for maintaining teaching of evolution. I would also have expanded it a bit and given a bit more history.