The Alabama Schoolbook travesty

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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:44:16 -0800
From: Earl Hautala <eh@value.net>
To: gastara@mail.auburn.edu
Subject: The Alabama Schoolbook travesty


In November (as you'll recall), Alabama's Board of Education 
declared that biology textbooks used in Alabama's public schools 
will have to carry a "Message" that spreads misinformation about 
organic evolution and promotes fundamentalist religion.  The 
"Message" says that evolution is a "controversial theory," that 
evolution is not a fact, that evolution is an "unproven belief that 
random, undirected forces produced a world of living things," etc. 

_The Textbook Letter_, the bulletin of The Textbook League (a 
501.c.3 educational non-profit), has published a four-page article 
that analyzes the Alabama Board's "Message," refutes the Board's 
claims, and exposes the "Message" as religious preaching.  The 
article also shows how some of the wording used in the Board's 
"Message" has been shaped by earlier attempts to disseminate 
fundamentalist religion in public schools. 

To get a copy of the article, at no charge, write to The Textbook 
League, P.O. Box 51, Sausalito, California 94966. 
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The response was written by: Bill Bennetta

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Robert A. Gastaldo
Alumni Professor of Geology
Auburn University, AL 36849
                      "The past may not repeat itself,
                            but it does rhyme"
                                        - Mark Twain
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