{"id":660,"date":"2008-07-23T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:20:59","slug":"adl-reiterates-its-support-of-evolution-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"ADL reiterates its support of evolution education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement submitted to the platform committees of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, the Anti-Defamation League reiterated its position on creationism and intelligent design:<\/p>\n<p>The platform statement describes ADL&#8217;s positions on the issues and outlines recommendations on policy direction that the organization hopes the parties will adopt, according to a July 21, 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/PresRele\/CvlRt_32\/5322_32.htm\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creationism, creation science and &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; theory are all religious theories of creation offered to explain the origins of the universe and are based on varying interpretations of the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>ADL has consistently opposed these troubling initiatives &#8212; including so-called &#8220;Academic Freedom Acts,&#8221; which support the teaching and consideration of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution.<\/li>\n<li>Advocating the right of students to learn science independently of religious doctrine honors the purpose and the promise of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement submitted to the platform committees of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, the Anti-Defamation League reiterated its position on creationism and intelligent design: The platform statement describes ADL&#8217;s positions on the issues and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-aE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=905","url_meta":{"origin":660,"position":0},"title":"Non-answer par for the course","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The St. Petersburg Times education blog, The Gradebook, interviewed House Pre-K-12 policy chairman John Legg. 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Resolving the Conflict,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a great example of a slick public relations campaign attacking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":398,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=398","url_meta":{"origin":660,"position":2},"title":"Creationism is taught in Florida?!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in today's Florida Today focuses on what evolution in the public schools means to Brevard County. The majority of quotes in the story are outstanding, and, quite frankly, reality based. Here's a sample. Superintendent Richard DiPatri said the change wouldn't make a difference in Brevard Public Schools, where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In the News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=400","url_meta":{"origin":660,"position":3},"title":"A letter to the editor worth noting","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been staying away from posting letters to the editor on this blog, because there are so many of them. But this one I thought was worth taking note of due in part to what it says and in part to who wrote it. 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