Last month, twelve different Florida school districts passed resolutions against the teaching of evolution in their schools.

Oscar Howard Jr., superintendent of Taylor County’s School District, and Danny Lundy, vice chairman of the School Board, spoke in accents from that other Florida. ‘’We’re opposed to teaching evolution as a fact,’’ Howard said, adding that his School Board and 11 others have passed resolutions against the imposition of evolution in the school curriculum.

After seeing this happen, do people really wonder why America is falling behind in science compared to the rest of the world?  The growing anti-intellectualism and influence of religious leaders is leading America to lose its competitive edge and respect world-wide.

In learning the Scientific Method, students are taught to gather evidence through observation, as well as using empirical and measurable evidence that is then subject to the principles of reasoning.  Evolution is a fact based on empirical evidence that evolution does happen and continues to happen today.  Evolution, in fact, describes a part of the observable universe into a coherent, logical conclusion.  It uses predictive tools to explain the changes over time.

Evolution happens every single day.  Each new strain of the flu is evolution in action.  Each new breed of dog is evolution in action.

If you want to teach creationism in schools, fine.  Go ahead.  But you can’t throw out the facts of science and evolution as well.  Removing a large portion of science to further your own agenda only creates hostile students and students who cannot think for themselves, instead letting the curriculum decide what they should think.