{"id":1228,"date":"2010-09-23T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:28:09","slug":"newspaper-reports-on-creationism-in-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper reports on creationism in textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel has a short story<\/a> about the creationist material found in a marine science textbook going through the instructional materials approval\/adoption process. Nothing new here. We still want to make sure everyone follows through as they say they will. (My previous post explaining everything here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel has a short story about the creationist material found in a marine science textbook going through the instructional materials approval\/adoption process. Nothing new here. We still want to make sure everyone follows through as they say they … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-jO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2349,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2349","url_meta":{"origin":1228,"position":0},"title":"Problem with Florida textbook over climate change?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Steven Newton from the National Center for Science Education reports that there is a problem with a science textbook here in the Sunshine State. 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