{"id":399,"date":"2007-12-03T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/03\/an-anticreationist-strategy\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:05:31","slug":"an-anticreationist-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/an-anticreationist-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anti-Creationist Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike the Mad Biologist suggests this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One way pro-science citizens can influence what local and state governments do is through federal funding. The next time any educational legislation is proposed, a key component should be the release of federal support for educational programs contingent upon the adoption of educational standards that do not accept intelligent design creationism as science and that also support the study of evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->It is possible.  The mechanism for this is in place to some extent. There is the No Child Left Behind policy which demands certain things happen at the state level.  Attempts have been made to hijack that legislation to INCLUDE creationism.  Why not hijack it to EXCLUDE creationism?This will all depend on how the next couple of elections go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike the Mad Biologist suggests this: One way pro-science citizens can influence what local and state governments do is through federal funding. The next time any educational legislation is proposed, a key component should be the release of federal support for educational programs contingent upon the adoption of educational standards that do not accept intelligent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/an-anticreationist-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Anti-Creationist Strategy<\/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":[],"tags":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}