You ever have an itch that you just couldn't ged rid of to your satisfaction?  The continuing debate with evolution & the Academic Freedom Act is kind of like that.  I know that this subject is a redo, but it just won't go away.  Two items blipped on my radar.

An article appeared in the Palm Beach Post, Capitol Bureau, which started off, "Florida House lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would require teachers to point out the flaws in evolution."  Now that is a fairly innocuous, fact based sentance.  Until you read between the lines.   This is nothing new.  This has been one of the main itchy points by opponents to evolution.  But if one thinks @ it, there is a thinly veiled implication.  That implication is that teachers of evolution have been less than truthful & NOT telling students that there are things that evolution haven't been able to explain, that there are indeed, gaps & that there are ideas which have not been proven.  funny thing though.  Scientists have been pointing out gaps & unexplained things since day one.  They have always realised that there is nothing wrong in telling the world that they just don't know yet.

This campaign is yet another scare tactic, groundless as always & used as a diversion of some kind, just as they yell at every opportunity that evolution is ONLY a theory, as if THAT were a TOTALLY NEW CONCEPT NEVER BEFORE SAID.

The second blip was a letter to the editor in today's  TU asking the question, "Why just Evolution?"  Now I think that is one darn good question & it begs another.  If those who are opposed to evolution the way that it is taught now, are so concerned @ the  Academic Freedom Act & accuracy in teaching, why are they limiting their efforts to evolution alone?  Why not apply the same standards to all subjects?  Are they not concerned with freedom & accuracy in all of the other subjects taught to students?  Ya just gotta wonder.  JATFUR.

RichK