Five states are working on academic-freedom bills, which would give teachers and students the opportunity to analyze evolution in the classroom.
The effort has made great strides in Florida, Louisiana and Missouri. Similar legislation has been introduced in Alabama and Michigan.
Darrell White, co-director of the Louisiana Family Forum, said the legislation would "free up teachers and students (to) fully explore various scientific weaknesses of Darwinism as well as other areas of science.”
Casey Luskin, an attorney with the Discovery Institute, said even Darwin, the father of evolution, would approve.
“Charles Darwin himself said that fair results could only be obtained by fully balancing and stating the facts and arguments on both sides of each question," he said. "What these bills seek to do is to restore Charles Darwin’s approach to teaching evolution — to teach it in a balanced, objective fashion.”
Luskin said Ben Stein's new film, Expelled, is helping academic-freedom bills advance.
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