The Neo-Mediaevalist Theist Gang strikes again. Was it a clerk or cleric who made the error, I wonder?Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.
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Though references to evolution appear in listings of other fields of biological study, the evolutionary biology sub-subsection is missing from a list of “fields of study” on the National Smart Grant list — there is an empty space between line 26.1302 (marine biology and biological oceanography) and line 26.1304 (aquatic biology/limnology).Scientists who knew about the omission also said they found the clerical explanation unconvincing, given the furor over challenges by the religious right to the teaching of evolution in public schools. “It’s just awfully coincidental,” said Steven W. Rissing, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Regressive Omissions
From the New York Times:
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