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Pinellas textbooks won't mention intelligent design
The school district's science teachers on Wednesday selected biology books for next year.
By DONNA WINCHESTER
Published February 8, 2006
Pinellas County biology students will find no mention of intelligent design in their new science textbooks next fall.
With four biology books to choose from - one of which included a description of the idea that life was produced by an unidentified intelligent agent - the district's science teachers picked Prentice Hall Biology, Florida Edition. That book was co-written by a Brown University professor who testified recently against the teaching of intelligent design during a trial in Dover, Pa.
"I feel very confident that our science teachers looked the books over from cover to cover," said Robert Orlopp, the K-12 science supervisor in Pinellas. "I don't think anyone voted for or against that particular book because of that passage."
[Last modified February 8, 2006, 19:16:35]
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