The NCSE is reporting that the Mississippi Disclaimer Bill has died in committee, leaving Alabama as the only state with a disclaimer on biology textbooks. Apparently the bill’s sponsor, Gary Chism (R-Distinct 37) is considering “drafting another bill next year supporting the teaching of the strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory in public school classrooms.” I’m sure the Discovery Institute would be happy to help him.
So the current status of anti-evolution legislation in 2009 is:
- Mississippi - disclaimer - dead in committee
- New Mexico - “strengths and weaknesses” - in committee
- Iowa - “academic freedom” - in committee
- Oklahoma - “strengths and weaknesses” - in committee
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NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri.
To recap the year:
Mississippi - dead in committee
Oklahoma - dead in committee
Iowa - dead in committee
New Mexico - dead in committee
Florida - dead in committee
Alabama - dead in committee…
I am so incredibly tardy with this information that Arizonian John Lynch and the lovely folks at Uncommon Descent have already blogged this, but recently an "academic freedom" bill was introduced in Iowa. For those who may be unfamiliar, in addition to "teach the controversy," these "academic…
The state of erv now has an embarrassing distinction: Oklahoma has put up the first anti-evolution bill for 2009. The year isn't even a week old and they're already pushing this nonsense.
Senate Bill 320 (document), prefiled in the Oklahoma Senate and scheduled for a first reading on February 2,…
You've got another of those wretched "academic (non)-freedom" bills in your state. They're like lice, crawling out everywhere.
Senate Bill 1386, introduced in the South Carolina Senate on May 15, 2008, and referred to the Senate Committee on Education, is the newest so-called "academic freedom"…
I am looking forward to when you get to use the headline:
"Discovery Institute Dead"
It could be a lot of fun writing up the story too...
Police were called to a shabby little office in a seedy part of Seattle earlier today, when neighbors noticed that nobody had gone in or out of the office for months. Inspector Callahan pronounced the DI & ID as dead as yesterdays news, and pointed out that since they actually never produced anything, it was amazing that they had lasted as long as they did.
They will not be missed.
J-Dog, they would come back three days later as the Academic Freedom Institute.