{"id":8799,"date":"2010-09-24T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/24\/antievolutionism-in-a-marine-s\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T19:23:09","slug":"antievolutionism-in-a-marine-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/antievolutionism-in-a-marine-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Antievolutionism in a marine science textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A sidebar in a marine science textbook recommended for approval in Florida is &#8220;packed with good ol&#8217; fashioned creationist language,&#8221; Florida Citizens for Science charges. The text in question, Life on an Ocean Planet  (Current Publishing, 2011), was recently recommended for state approval by the state&#8217;s instructional materials adoption committee on a 7-2 vote, according to the education blog of the St. Petersburg Times  (September 22, 2010). But as FCFS&#8217;s president Joe Wolf wrote to Florida Department of Education Commissioner Eric Smith, the sidebar on &#8220;Questions about the Origin and Development of Life&#8221; is &#8220;simultaneously actively misinforming, at odds with state standards, and ultimately irrelevant to marine science.&#8221; Smith has the final say in the textbook adoption process, and Wolf recommended that the sidebar &#8220;should be removed entirely, as there is so little information that is either correct or useful to make it worth retaining.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2010\/09\/antievolutionism-marine-science-textbook-006197\">details, more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sidebar in a marine science textbook recommended for approval in Florida is &#8220;packed with good ol&#8217; fashioned creationist language,&#8221; Florida Citizens for Science charges. The text in question, Life on an Ocean Planet (Current Publishing, 2011), was recently recommended for state approval by the state&#8217;s instructional materials adoption committee on a 7-2 vote, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/antievolutionism-in-a-marine-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antievolutionism in a marine science textbook<\/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\/p5fhV1-2hV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799"}],"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=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}