segunda-feira, 17 de maio de 2010

Vitória dos alunos de Texas!

As escolas texanas poderão agora questionar legalmente muitos aspectos do darwinismo, conforme noticiou o Discovery:

Os pontos mais importantes (em inglês):

1. The adoption of a new critical inquiry standard improving on the old "strengths and weaknesses" language: “in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."
2. The addition of "analyze and evaluate" to all of the high school biology evolution standards (no such language was included in the existing evolution standards). Students are now specifically required to evaluate the evidence regarding major evolutionary topics such as common ancestry, natural selection and mutations.
3. The addition of two new standards in the high school biology evolution section of the TEKS requiring students to analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning the fossil record and the complexity of the cell.
4. The adoption of a new high school biology standard dealing with origin of life research and chemical evolution that calls on students to "analyze and evaluate” the scientific evidence regarding formation of DNA molecules.

É isso!

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