Sign in to read: New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US – science-in-society – 09 July 2008 – New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926643.300

On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning – including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.