http://www.msnbc.com/news/548017.asp?cp1=1#BODY/
Reuters, March 21/01
The Arkansas legislation was approved by the House Committee on
State Agencies and Governmental Affairs.
It would bar the topic of evolution or related radiocarbon
dating of animal and plant fossils from state-funded textbooks
used in schools, museums, libraries and zoos.
In books already on hand, the bill would require teachers
to instruct students to mark "false evidence" or "theory" in the
margins next to references to evolution and the carbon dating of
fossils.
"We have been elected to make sure that taxpayer dollars
are spent wisely and only for truth," Rep. Jim Holt, a freshman
Republican and self-described Christian conservative, told the
committee.
This is an early April Fool's Day joke, right?
-Stephen
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