Title: The Battle to Teach Evolution in Public Schools Is Far From Over
Headings: The Battle to Teach Evolution in Public Schools Is Far From Over
The Battle to Teach Evolution in Public Schools Is Far From Over
It's 2017, and this is still an issue.
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Content: Gary L. Scott, who had been fired for teaching evolution at a high school in Jacksboro, Tennessee. Having challenged the constitutionality of the law and succeeded, once the repeal in Tennessee was signed, other states that had similar legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools followed suit. But there was never really any reprieve: even today, almost a century after the Scopes trial, the fight to teach evolution in public schools is far from being over. Evolution Alternatives
While it’s no longer illegal for America’s public school science teachers to teach evolution, in the decades that have elapsed since Scopes, religious groups have endeavored to enforce the teaching of “alternatives” alongside evolution. These include biblical creationism, scientific creationism, and intelligent design — all of which, to varying extents, teach that life on Earth did not arise solely through evolution. There are also those who have lobbied for teachers to have the ability to teach evolution in a way that presents it as being scientifically controversial: this gross misrepresentation of established scientific data and hard evidence has alarmed some science educators even more than the outright rejection of the concept. While laws that enforce the teaching of evolution “alternatives” have not successfully passed, since 2004 three states have passed legislation permitting teachers to teach evolution in a way that frames it as being scientifically controversial. Advertisement
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While it may be controversial socially, evolution is not a controversial topic within the science community: