Re: AIG notes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Collins" <gwcollins@algol.co.uk>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: AIG notes

>
> Not too long ago on this list the issue of removing the word 'evolution'
> from the textbooks was aired. If I remember rightly, this was not an
> attempt to change what is actually taught, but simply to use a different
> word for it.

Yes and no - the GA people were proposing to change
the standards by accepting the AAAS project 2061
benchmarks - but excising the word "evolution" AND
other words and sometimes entire points, such as
reference to the "long history" of the earth, which was
changed to the "history" of the earth. So they did a
little bit more than find and replace "evolution". The
publicity coup was that they made it appear that excising
the "e-word" is all they did. See for more information:

 http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Erac/gabiostds.html
Received on Tue Mar 16 08:39:41 2004