{"id":429,"date":"2008-02-05T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=429"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:33:20","slug":"discovery-institutes-finger-in-the-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Institute’s finger in the pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gradebook<\/a> notes that the Discovery Institute is fully well aware of what’s going on here in Florida (who would think they didn’t?) and is offering advice to anyone seeking it.<\/p>\n

The Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank best known for its support of intelligent design, has entered the fray over Florida’s science standards. Well, sort of. It acknowledged on its Evolution News & Views blog today that it provided information to Fred Cutting, the member of the standards-writing committee who recently submitted a minority report on the issue.<\/p>\n

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“we constantly receive inquiries from students, teachers, school board members and other educators from all around the United States who want information about how they can teach evolution in a more objective fashion, and we help out whenever we can.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gradebook notes that the Discovery Institute is fully well aware of what’s going on here in Florida (who would think they didn’t?) and is offering advice to anyone seeking it. 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