Another anti-evolution bill comes up in Concord tomorrow (Tuesday)

Lawmakers will hold a hearing tomorrow (Tuesday) on a second anti-evolution bill: this one would require that it be "taught as a theory." (UPDATE: Unfortunately I won't be able to cover it; there's no much else happening in the state/region at the moment that I just can't spend half a day traveling up to Concord and back for a hearing. We will try to cover it some other way.)

I wrote about the first bill last week: It's more convoluted, since it doesn't mention evolution although that's the reason for its existence. Here's my story.

The Guardian, a well-respected, politically liberal national newspaper in Britain, had a column recently chiding us for the bills, as well as other anti-evolution bill in the U.S. It's titled "The new anti-science assault on US schools."

Indiana is facing a bill that would require teaching "creation science", which is patently illegal. Anti-evolutionists have learned to avoid any variant of the word "creation" because of the religious overtones. "Intelligent design" is the preferred designation.