Re: Wisconsin

My view from NZ is that this move is an understandable reaction in the
US context, but deplorable. In my view any legislative action, whether
by YECs, ID proponents, evolutionsists, or others is unhelpful. It just
tends to reinforce the perspective of a science versus religion conflict.
Don

Randy Isaac wrote:

> In that vein, I just received a request for the ASA perspective on the
> bill before the Wisconsin legislature that would add section 118.018
> Science Instruction to the Wisconsin statutes.
> http://www.legis.state.wi.us/assembly/asm76/news/PDF%20Files/05-24631.pdf
>
> The full text of the legislation is:
>
>
> *SECTION 1*. 118.018 of the statutes is created to read:
>
> *118.018 Science instruction*. The school board shall ensure that
> any material presented as science within the school curriculum
> complies with all of the following:
>
> *(1)* The material is testable as a scientific hypothesis and
> describes only natural processes.
>
> *(2)* The material is consistent with any description or
> definition of science adopted by the National Academy of Sciences.
>
>
>
> There's been a lot of blog activity on this in the last few
> weeks. Any comments from this group?
>
> Randy
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 2 18:47:34 2006