{"id":730,"date":"2006-02-09T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=730"},"modified":"2009-02-11T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:47:35","slug":"pinellas-textbooks-won%e2%80%99t-mention-intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas textbooks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention intelligent design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinellas textbooks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention intelligent design<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinellas County biology students will find no mention of intelligent design in their new science textbooks next fall.<\/p>\n

With four biology books to choose from – one of which included a description of the idea that life was produced by an unidentified intelligent agent – the district\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science teachers picked Prentice Hall Biology, Florida Edition. That book was co-written by a Brown University professor who testified recently against the teaching of intelligent design during a trial in Dover, Pa.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel very confident that our science teachers looked the books over from cover to cover,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Robert Orlopp, the K-12 science supervisor in Pinellas. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think anyone voted for or against that particular book because of that passage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinellas textbooks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention intelligent design Pinellas County biology students will find no mention of intelligent design in their new science textbooks next fall. 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