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		<title>Comment on New creationism bill in Alabama. by the ridger</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2012/02/15/new-creationism-bill-in-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-12411</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[the ridger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweet. First time some kid wants credit and time out of class for studying HInduism I expect him to GET IT.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sweet. First time some kid wants credit and time out of class for studying HInduism I expect him to GET IT.</p>
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		<title>Comment on And while you were away &#8230; by Glenn Branch</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2012/02/03/and-while-you-were-away/comment-page-1/#comment-12409</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glenn Branch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s HB 1457, not HB 1147, in New Hampshire.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s HB 1457, not HB 1147, in New Hampshire.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Book Review: Richard Owen. Biology Without Darwin by John M. Lynch</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/07/08/book-review-richard-owen-biology-without-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-12261</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John M. Lynch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as the NCSE publishes it, I&#039;ll have a link. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As soon as the NCSE publishes it, I&#8217;ll have a link. </p>
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		<title>Comment on Book Review: Richard Owen. Biology Without Darwin by Dylan Headley</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/07/08/book-review-richard-owen-biology-without-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-12260</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dylan Headley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to be off topic, but I&#039;m still eagerly awaiting your review for A Meaningful World by Wiker and Witt.  You first mentioned it a year ago.  Is it available in print or online yet?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to be off topic, but I&#8217;m still eagerly awaiting your review for A Meaningful World by Wiker and Witt.  You first mentioned it a year ago.  Is it available in print or online yet?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Book Review: Richard Owen. Biology Without Darwin by David Williams</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/07/08/book-review-richard-owen-biology-without-darwin/comment-page-1/#comment-12252</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ll send you some comments about the statue move offline.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll send you some comments about the statue move offline.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Tennessee &amp; Florida by James F</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/21/tennessee-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12219</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annnd it&#039;s dead.

http://ncse.com/news/2011/05/florida-antievolution-bill-dies-006666]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Annnd it&#8217;s dead.</p>
<p><a href="http://ncse.com/news/2011/05/florida-antievolution-bill-dies-006666" rel="nofollow">http://ncse.com/news/2011/05/florida-antievolution-bill-dies-006666</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Tennessee &amp; Florida by James F</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/21/tennessee-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12218</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe Florida&#039;s legislative session was over as of this past Friday, so I&#039;m expecting confirmation from the NCSE that the bill is dead in that state.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe Florida&#8217;s legislative session was over as of this past Friday, so I&#8217;m expecting confirmation from the NCSE that the bill is dead in that state.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Tennessee &amp; Florida by cookie</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/21/tennessee-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12194</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cookie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank God! I was getting SO tired of having to back up my research with ACTUAL science. That&#039;s so much work, you know? All that testing takes a lot of time and effort. Now I can just say that Jesus did it instead of looking at all the facts and determining the real cause of phenomena.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank God! I was getting SO tired of having to back up my research with ACTUAL science. That&#8217;s so much work, you know? All that testing takes a lot of time and effort. Now I can just say that Jesus did it instead of looking at all the facts and determining the real cause of phenomena.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Friday Fox by Bob O'H</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/08/friday-fox-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10768</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob O'H]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Oh shit, it&#039;s Glenn Beck!&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Oh shit, it&#8217;s Glenn Beck!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Happy Paul Nelson Day! by DLC</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/07/happy-paul-nelson-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10652</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DLC]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shall celebrate by not holding my breath while waiting for an in-depth article defining &quot;Ontogenetic Depth&quot; that carries any real scientific meaning to it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I shall celebrate by not holding my breath while waiting for an in-depth article defining &#8220;Ontogenetic Depth&#8221; that carries any real scientific meaning to it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Friday Fox by Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/01/friday-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-10644</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nina dances the red fox beautifully, but can she harness her inner darkness to become... the black fox???]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nina dances the red fox beautifully, but can she harness her inner darkness to become&#8230; the black fox???</p>
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		<title>Comment on Friday Fox by Thony C.</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/04/01/friday-fox/comment-page-1/#comment-10643</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thony C.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Four legs good, two legs better&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Four legs good, two legs better&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Alabama by Cera Lawrence</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/03/25/alabama-3/comment-page-1/#comment-10625</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cera Lawrence]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ll leave off trying to understand what &quot;creationism as a theory of evolution&quot; could possibly mean. But here&#039;s some relevant passages from the Alabama Course of Study. Learning Objective 12 in Biology: 
&quot;12.	Describe protective adaptations of animals, including mimicry, camouflage, beak type, migration, and hibernation.
•	Identifying ways in which the theory of evolution explains the nature and diversity of organisms
•	Describing natural selection, survival of the fittest, geographic isolation, and fossil record&quot;

That&#039;s pretty much it for Evolution, as the NCSE&#039;s 2009 report also notes. The Genetics Elective Core is a bit more expansive: 
&quot;1.	Explain how the Hardy-Weinberg principle provides a baseline for recognizing evolutionary changes in gene frequency due to genetic drift, gene flow, nonrandom mating, mutation, and natural selection.

	2.	Describe factors such as radiation, chemicals, and chance that cause mutations in populations.
•	Describing effects of genetic variability on adaptations&quot;
But it&#039;s an elective, and will likely only be taken by high-level students who don&#039;t want to take physics. In short, the Alabama Course of Study is certain very scanty on evolution, but there&#039;s no &quot;multiple theories of evolution&quot; being taught (hell, they don&#039;t even deal with any historical theories other than Lamarckism, just a bit, and probably just to say it was stupid and wrong) and there&#039;s certainly no Creationism. 

Because that would be *unconstitutional.* I suspect that Mr. Sibley will be walking this statement back, or doing a walk of shame some time soon. This just isn&#039;t a thing that you can do. 

For the sake of completeness, here&#039;s the evolution disclaimer in the preface of the Course of Study, which is very similar to the sticker that was in the front of my textbook in tenth grade. (My Domestic Partner in Crime still has a copy of the textbook sticker, which I think is pretty awesome.)

&quot;The theory of evolution by natural selection, a theory included in this document, states that natural selection provides the basis for the modern scientific explanation for the diversity of living things.  Since natural selection has been observed to play a role in influencing small changes in a population, it is assumed, based on the study of artifacts, that it produces large changes, even though this has not been directly observed.  Because of its importance and implications, students should understand the nature of evolutionary theories.  They should learn to make distinctions among the multiple meanings of evolution, to distinguish between observations and assumptions used to draw conclusions, and to wrestle with the unanswered questions and unresolved problems still faced by evolutionary theory.

There are many unanswered questions about the origin of life.  With the explosion of new scientific knowledge in biochemical and molecular biology and exciting new fossil discoveries, Alabama students may be among those who use their understanding and skills to contribute to knowledge and to answer many unanswered questions.  Instructional materials chosen to implement the content standards within this course of study should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll leave off trying to understand what &#8220;creationism as a theory of evolution&#8221; could possibly mean. But here&#8217;s some relevant passages from the Alabama Course of Study. Learning Objective 12 in Biology:<br />
&#8220;12.	Describe protective adaptations of animals, including mimicry, camouflage, beak type, migration, and hibernation.<br />
•	Identifying ways in which the theory of evolution explains the nature and diversity of organisms<br />
•	Describing natural selection, survival of the fittest, geographic isolation, and fossil record&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it for Evolution, as the NCSE&#8217;s 2009 report also notes. The Genetics Elective Core is a bit more expansive:<br />
&#8220;1.	Explain how the Hardy-Weinberg principle provides a baseline for recognizing evolutionary changes in gene frequency due to genetic drift, gene flow, nonrandom mating, mutation, and natural selection.</p>
<p>	2.	Describe factors such as radiation, chemicals, and chance that cause mutations in populations.<br />
•	Describing effects of genetic variability on adaptations&#8221;<br />
But it&#8217;s an elective, and will likely only be taken by high-level students who don&#8217;t want to take physics. In short, the Alabama Course of Study is certain very scanty on evolution, but there&#8217;s no &#8220;multiple theories of evolution&#8221; being taught (hell, they don&#8217;t even deal with any historical theories other than Lamarckism, just a bit, and probably just to say it was stupid and wrong) and there&#8217;s certainly no Creationism. </p>
<p>Because that would be *unconstitutional.* I suspect that Mr. Sibley will be walking this statement back, or doing a walk of shame some time soon. This just isn&#8217;t a thing that you can do. </p>
<p>For the sake of completeness, here&#8217;s the evolution disclaimer in the preface of the Course of Study, which is very similar to the sticker that was in the front of my textbook in tenth grade. (My Domestic Partner in Crime still has a copy of the textbook sticker, which I think is pretty awesome.)</p>
<p>&#8220;The theory of evolution by natural selection, a theory included in this document, states that natural selection provides the basis for the modern scientific explanation for the diversity of living things.  Since natural selection has been observed to play a role in influencing small changes in a population, it is assumed, based on the study of artifacts, that it produces large changes, even though this has not been directly observed.  Because of its importance and implications, students should understand the nature of evolutionary theories.  They should learn to make distinctions among the multiple meanings of evolution, to distinguish between observations and assumptions used to draw conclusions, and to wrestle with the unanswered questions and unresolved problems still faced by evolutionary theory.</p>
<p>There are many unanswered questions about the origin of life.  With the explosion of new scientific knowledge in biochemical and molecular biology and exciting new fossil discoveries, Alabama students may be among those who use their understanding and skills to contribute to knowledge and to answer many unanswered questions.  Instructional materials chosen to implement the content standards within this course of study should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on How could we forget Texas? by DLC</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/03/18/how-could-we-forget-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-10620</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DLC]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yow. So if I go to Texas and open my laboratory claiming I&#039;m researching abiogenesis by way of massive spagetti spill, they can&#039;t fire me?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yow. So if I go to Texas and open my laboratory claiming I&#8217;m researching abiogenesis by way of massive spagetti spill, they can&#8217;t fire me?</p>
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		<title>Comment on News from Kentucky by James F</title>
		<link>http://blog.jmlynch.org/2011/03/11/news-from-kentucky/comment-page-1/#comment-10615</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James F]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t forget HB2454 in Texas, which is in a category of stupid all its own:

http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/texas’s-first-creationism-bill-for-2011/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t forget HB2454 in Texas, which is in a category of stupid all its own:</p>
<p><a href="http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/texas’s-first-creationism-bill-for-2011/" rel="nofollow">http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/texas’s-first-creationism-bill-for-2011/</a></p>
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