Another victory in Florida

I recently reported that the Nassau County school board in Florida was going to vote on a resolution opposing the dogmatic teaching of Darwinism. Florida Citizens for Science now reports that the resolution passed unanimously and that a total of ten Florida school boards have now passed such resolutions. I previously reported that two other county school boards in Florida passed similar resolutions unanimously.

Judge Jones, whose Dover opinion said, inter alia, "we will enter an order permanently enjoining Defendants . . . from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution," must be having conniption fits.

I predict that what is going to happen is that the Florida state board of education will just drop the most controversial language from the proposed new standards for science education.

Dire warnings that universities and businesses are going to discriminate against Florida and Floridians are unfounded. Universities compete very hard for the best students and are not going to discriminate against top students from Florida just because the Florida state science standards are not sufficiently pro-Darwinist. And businesses have many other far more important factors to consider in deciding where they are going to locate.