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Louisiana: even more doomed

The creationist academic freedom bill in Louisiana allows controversial theories to infiltrate education, threatening real science education.

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Last year, when creationist/exorcist Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal signed the creationist-enabling academic freedom bill into law, I said "Keep fighting, people. Because I guarantee this victory for the bad guys in Louisiana will embolden them." Man, I hate being right all the time. This past week, Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adopted a policy that allows teachers to use outside materials to teach scientific theories deemed controversial. What theories do you think those would be? Gravity? Boyle's law? Quantum mechanics? Yeah, right. This is an incredibly thinly veiled policy to let creationists use their own materials in the class, materials that would otherwise not be allowed due to that pesky First Amendment. Creationists changed their tune to talk about Intelligent Design when they got caught violating the Constitution, and they got caught again at the Dover trial when an ID book was found to be a creationist ...

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