{"id":337,"date":"2007-12-06T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-08-05T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:37:22","slug":"call-to-action-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Call to Action project"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need your help!<\/strong> Florida Citizens for Science has launched a “call to action” project: All I Want for Christmas is a Good Science Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the holiday season is upon us, why not spread an educational message along with your Christmas cheer? We need to let the Florida Board of Education know that evolution is an important scientific concept that our children need to know, and that other supposed “theories,” such as intelligent design, are not. Why is this an issue? Because evolution is not in the current state science standards, but is in a new draft of the standards that will go before the BoE in January. Unfortunately, evolution has become an issue for some of those Board members. Please browse through other recent posts on this blog to learn more about this situation.<\/p>\n

We want you to send Christmas cards that include personal messages supporting good science education to the members of the state Board of Education. This project will demonstrate that there are as many, if not more, people in Florida who support good science education as there are people against it. We want to tell them that we don’t want our state to become the laughingstock of the nation like other states were in past years when confronted with similar situations.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry about your cards getting to the recipients too late for Christmas. The main point is to flood their offices with our message: we value a first-rate science education for our children! Additionally, depending on the kind of Christmas card you send, you can get across the message that it’s OK to have religious faith and still accept evolution.<\/p>\n

Visit the web page linked to above and get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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