{"id":24795,"date":"2011-02-14T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/14\/antievolution-legislation-in-t\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:18:18","slug":"antievolution-legislation-in-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/antievolution-legislation-in-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Antievolution legislation in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>House Bill 368 (PDF), introduced in the Tennessee House of Representatives on February 9, 2011, is the sixth antievolution bill introduced in a state legislature in 2011, and the first introduced in Tennessee since 2007. The bill, if enacted, would require state and local educational authorities to &#8220;assist teachers to find effective ways to present the science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies&#8221; and permit teachers to &#8220;help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.&#8221; The only examples provided of &#8220;controversial&#8221; theories are &#8220;biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.&#8221; The sole sponsor of HB 368 is Bill Dunn (R-District 16), who, according to Project Vote Smart, answered yes to the question &#8220;Should Tennessee require its public schools to teach evolution as theory rather than scientific fact?&#8221; in 1996 &#8212; the same year in which the Tennessee legislature considered a bill (SB 3229\/HB 2972) that would have provided for the suspension or dismissal of any teacher or administrator who taught evolution as a fact rather than a theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/02\/antievolution-legislation-tennessee-006485\"><br \/>\nLinks, the actual bill, etc. here at NCSE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 368 (PDF), introduced in the Tennessee House of Representatives on February 9, 2011, is the sixth antievolution bill introduced in a state legislature in 2011, and the first introduced in Tennessee since 2007. The bill, if enacted, would require state and local educational authorities to &#8220;assist teachers to find effective ways to present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/antievolution-legislation-in-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antievolution legislation in Tennessee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6rV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}