Bill targeting teaching of evolution gets a hearing tomorrow (Wednesday)

A bill (HB1457) that targets the teaching of evolution - although you wouldn't know that from the title, "relative to scientific inquiry in the public schools" - gets a first hearing tomorrow in Concord: 11 a.m. in the Legislative Office Bulding.

The original version of the bill was titled "requiring instruction in intelligent design" but the current version has weirdly vague terminology. It would "Require science teachers to instruct pupils that proper scientific inquire (sic) results from not committing to any one theory or hypothesis, no matter how firmly it appears to be established, and that scientific and technological innovations based on new evidence can challenge accepted scientific theories or modes.”

I'm going to the hearing partly to see what lawmakers think this means. I'll post updates on The Telegraph's home page (assuming the WiFi tablet I'm carrying works).

Here's an earlier story I wrote about this bill, as well as another one that requires teaching "evolution as a theory" - it gets a hearing next week.