Is the Bush Administration Discriminating Against Evolutionary Biology?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}The U.S Department of Education finances a new grant program to help fund students in various fields, both in the science and humanities. For some strange reason, though, evolutionary biology is missing from the list of eligible fields. Every field gets a classification number and the numbers just before and just after evolutionary biology appear. Is this an oversight or deliberate? The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: That absence apparently indicates that students in the evolutionary sciences do not qualify for the grants, and some observers are wondering whether the omission was deliberate. The question arises at a time when evolution has become a political hot potato at all levels of education. While the theory of evolution has overwhelming support
