{"id":4696,"date":"2008-02-20T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/science_standards_will_call_evolution_scientific_theory\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:29:00","slug":"science_standards_will_call_evolution_scientific_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"Science Standards Will Call Evolution &#39;Scientific Theory&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s State Board of Education has voted to use the term &#8220;scientific theory of evolution&#8221; in new science standards, the first time the word &#8220;evolution&#8221; has been included.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s current standards require the teaching of evolution using code words like &#8220;change over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adding the term &#8220;scientific theory&#8221; before the term &#8220;evolution&#8221; was a modified proposal at least one board member called a compromise, not standards proposed originally to the committee. The option to include &#8220;scientific theory&#8221; was made late last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=4311046&#038;page=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s State Board of Education has voted to use the term &#8220;scientific theory of evolution&#8221; in new science standards, the first time the word &#8220;evolution&#8221; has been included. Florida&#8217;s current standards require the teaching of evolution using code words like<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4696\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}