{"id":325,"date":"2007-11-26T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T02:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-08-05T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T23:57:11","slug":"focus-on-the-family-weighing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Family weighing in"},"content":{"rendered":"

An online arm of Focus on the Family, CitizenLink, is advising readers to contact the Florida Department of Education<\/a> to demand the inclusion of intelligent design alongside evolution in the new draft of the state science standards. Fortunately, their brief is not too detailed or accurate. Rather than have their audience contact the actual Board of Education or visit the science standards website<\/a>, they just have an e-mail link to someone in the Bureau of Instruction and Innovation. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An online arm of Focus on the Family, CitizenLink, is advising readers to contact the Florida Department of Education to demand the inclusion of intelligent design alongside evolution in the new draft of the state science standards. 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