Orlando Sentinel: Let there be light

Columnist Mike Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel writes in today’s paper that evolution is getting quite a bit of support in the draft science standards.

We are moving toward intelligently designed science curriculum in public schools.

And by that I mean we are leaving intelligent design out of classrooms.

By golly, Florida is evolving.

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The Department of Education published the new standards on its Web site Friday. You can check them out and even comment on them at etc.usf.edu/flstandards/index.html.

Of 1,400 respondents to date, more than 80 percent support evolution.

Tappen welcomes alternative views. But she says nothing will be deleted from the standards without research-backed arguments backing up the removal.