{"id":740,"date":"2008-10-07T06:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=740"},"modified":"2008-12-08T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:23:12","slug":"evolution-in-school-board-elections-broward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Evolution in school board elections: Broward"},"content":{"rendered":"

It amazes me that one particular school subject — evolution — becomes an issue in school board elections. If you sit back and think about it, wouldn’t it be silly to see the issue of comma placement as taught in English composition class attract candidate attention? Nonetheless, evolution is a concern in Broward County. Florida Today mentions the candidates’ stances on evolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But she [Karen Henderson] lacks the experience to hit the ground running on difficult budget and school governance issues and favors unwise policies such as teaching faith-based intelligent design as an alternative to science-based evolution.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [Stuart Rowan] also a firm believer in the separation of church and state and rightly says it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very inappropriate to teach religious doctrine such as creationism or intelligent design in the science classroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It amazes me that one particular school subject — evolution — becomes an issue in school board elections. If you sit back and think about it, wouldn’t it be silly to see the issue of comma placement as taught in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-bW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1262,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1262","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":0},"title":"Newspapers not kind to antievolution bill so far","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The early news reports and blog posts about Senator Stephen Wise's antievolution bill (SB 1854) (and see my previous post) are not too kind to his repeated attempts to undermine science education. 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