Growing up in a small rural Missouri town during the fifties and sixties, the PCB remembers well what was taught as the theory of evolution in the elementary classroom. Specifically that evolution was indeed a theory of the origin of life. The idea that evolution is a theory has itself evolved into evolution being taught as a fact in today’s modern classrooms.

In Cobb County Gerogia in 2002, a local school board challenged that assertion by the insertion of stickers inside the covers of the biology textbooks. This move came after some parents of the students had become concerned that evolution was no longer being presented as a theory in the new text books, but as fact.

The story as detailed by Fox News here, dated November 8, 2004, which gives the full account of the lawsuit filed by six parents and the Georgia Chapter of the American (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)