In Georgia today a federal judge forced school districts to remove stickers that were being placed on biology textbooks that WARNED students that evolution was discussed inside, and was "a theory, not a fact."
Now, in my book, the warning was clearly written in a manner that used 'theory' in a manner unbefitting that of evolution or the Standard Model of physics; that is, one that can explain phenomena, make predictions, is self-consistent, and explains available data sets. (Both of these theories are so resoundingly successful that any replacement to them will have to incorporate the existing theory as a subset!) Instead, the warning cast evolution as something that we should be very, very skeptical of; a sham.
It's good to see that our judicial system is still capable of respecting the Constitutional separation of Church and State in all its forms. That separation is a Good Idea. Besides, when it comes to science, phenomena must be accounted for without resorting to God or other supernatural effects. Sheer ignorance of this concept is demonstrated by an attorney for the school district, who said "[s]cience and religion are related and they're not mutually exclusive."
Nope, sorry, they are. That said, it doesn't overturn religion; science simply cannot confront God by definition. Good for the justice system today; hopefully this can be seen as a precedent for other states that are battling fundamentalist Creationist (or the modern-day Intelligent Design) influence in our public schools.
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