We got back from Alaska yesterday afternoon. The trip was fun, but I’m glad to be back home. The first thing we did was stop in Conyers and eat at Folks, a Southern restaurant. We both had sweet tea (finally!) to drink. I ate fried chicken with mashed potatoes and turnip greens, and Tiffany had a vegetable plate.
While we were in Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News ran a story on evolution being strengthened in the Alaska standards: Science teaching standards evolve.
Initially, the department chose to eliminate the reference to evolution altogether, even though a majority of the educators and scientists who helped draft the first part of the standards favored using it.
Education department assessment director Les Morse said he did that to try to avoid the sort of strife that plagued the department in 1993. But he decided to reinsert the word “evolution” parenthetically after similar science standards absent that word in the state of Georgia made national headlines, drawing the scorn of even former President Jimmy Carter.
It’s good to know that our work in Georgia has helped science education in another state.
How on earth do you drive right past a Steak ‘n’ Shake and then eat at a place called “Folks”????
More on the conference!
What was there? What was the hot topic? What was the best presentation?
Was there even a hint of intelligent design anywhere?
Or is this the 25th year in a row that the ID folks have scrupulously avoided showing up at the premiere evolution meeting to show that ID is not just vapor?
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