Schools evolution proposal could die

May 1st, 2008 midwifetoad Posted in News |

House and Senate bills must be reconciled before adjournment.

By Steve Patterson, The Times-Union

TALLAHASSEE - A proposal to let schoolteachers criticize the scientific basis of evolution may die in the Legislature because dueling plans haven’t been reconciled into a single bill.

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Others questioned whether the House effort was sabotaged.

“I’d say someone in the House, in the name of trying to push this bill, is actually trying to kill it,” said John West, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based organization that developed a model evolution-debate law that was the basis for Florida’s legislation.

“If nothing passes, I think there will be a lot of explaining to do,” he said.

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