"Scientific creationism" and "intelligent design" will continue to be permitted in Louisiana's public school science curriculum
Opponents of teaching evolution in Louisiana won a minor victory Tuesday, when they convinced a panel of the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to continue to allow science teachers to present the widely-discredited ideas as legitimate scientific theories.
The BESE panel voted 10-0 to not explicitly ban teaching creationism and intelligent design within the new guidelines, which will be formally adopted by BESE on Thursday.
The creationist victory was somewhat muted by the panel’s requirement that the science guidelines continue to include language that explicitly bans the promotion of any religious doctrine.
The guidelines also require that anything included in a science course must be “scientifically sound and supported by empirical evidence.” Read the full story here.