{"id":1534,"date":"2012-05-01T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2012-05-01T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T23:24:14","slug":"miami-heralds-fred-grimm-takes-on-monkey-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm takes on “monkey bills”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Grimm over at the Miami Herald has a column published entitled “Fighting evolution one monkey law at a time<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Model bills bounce around from one whacked-out legislature to another. If evolution went down in Tennessee in 2012, you can pretty well figure that the Florida Legislature will be rethinking the origins of the species in 2013.
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\nLast year, Sen. Stephen Wise of Jacksonville attempted to push an anti-evolution bill through the Florida Legislature, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why do we still have apes if we came from them?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You can figure creationists will be reprising those Wise words next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, that is inaccurate. Wise said that apes quote in support of his 2009 antievolution bill<\/a>. When he promoted his 2011 antievolution bill, he claimed that there was the theory of evolution and then there was a “non-evolution” “theory of whatever<\/a>.” You can’t blame Grimm for getting it all confused, though. It’s basically all the same smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n

The Legislature also added Amendment Eight, dubbed as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Religious Freedom Amendment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the fall ballot, which, with obtuse language, removes the old state constitutional prohibition on giving tax dollars going to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153any church, sect, or religious denomination.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really about state money (think vouchers) going to religious schools, where teachers are already free to ignore Charlie Darwin and all that inconvenient monkey business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fred Grimm over at the Miami Herald has a column published entitled “Fighting evolution one monkey law at a time.” Model bills bounce around from one whacked-out legislature to another. 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Wise's \"non-evolution\" \"theory of whatever\": Among scientists, the idea of teaching \"nonevolution\" in public schools would be dismissed as nonsense. But in Tallahassee, just such a bill sponsored by Rep. Stephen Wise has its supporters. This is, after all, a state\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11"","block_context":{"text":"\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=29"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1266,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1266","url_meta":{"origin":1534,"position":1},"title":"Senator Wise and the “non-evolution” “theory of whatever”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Tampa Tribune reporter Elaine Silvestrini finally got someone to speak on behalf of the new antievolution bill filed in the state senate (SB 1854): Senator Stephen Wise himself (Story: Legislator's challenge to evolution has some alarmed). 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