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 Nancy Scott - Oct. 1, 2008

It does seem like a balanced story, giving both sides. I do come away thinking that people in Florida must be not very intelligent to not understand science or even be able to know that evolution is happening no matter if it is called evolution or theory of evolution.