Louisiana Coalition for Science

See Barbara Forrest, “Why Texans Shouldn’t Let Creationists Mess with Texas Science Education,” Southern Methodist University, November 11, 2008  — Video —  MP3

By Barbara Forrest
November 27, 2008
Texas science education is currently in the crosshairs of the Discovery Institute (DI), the conservative Seattle think tank that serves as the headquarters of the intelligent design (ID) creationist [...]

By Barbara Forrest
One of the clearest indications that the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) is intended to advance the religious agenda of the Discovery Institute (DI) and the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), the organizations that jointly promoted this legislation, is the law’s inclusion of a religion disclaimer that comes directly from DI’s doublespeak-titled “Model Academic [...]

By Barbara Forrest
September 27, 2008
Scientist and writer John Timmer has reviewed the Discovery Institute’s stealth creationist textbook, Explore Evolution, in Ars Technica. Three of EE’s authors are well-known intelligent design (ID) creationists. Stephen C. Meyer is the director of the Discovery Institute’s ID creationist wing, the Center for Science and Culture (CSC). Two of his [...]

Anyone who missed Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, which aired on PBS’s NOVA in November 2007, can view the entire program on Google video (112 minutes). This Peabody Award-winning documentary of the first legal case involving intelligent design (ID) creationism, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005) is the story of the [...]

SB 733, the “LA Science Education Act,” is now law in Louisiana. Prior to being passed in its current form, this bill was first introduced as SB 561, the “LA Academic Freedom Act.” It was one of six such bills, the introduction of which the Discovery Institute (DI), a creationist think tank in Seattle, coordinated [...]

In its weekly e-newsletter, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has chronicled Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signing of SB 733, the stealth creationism bill known as the “LA Science Education Act.”
NCSE is a national clearinghouse that provides assistance to citizens who seek to protect the teaching of science in their public schools:

“The National Center for [...]

Gov. Jindal’s signing of SB 733 has attracted quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere. Here are excerpts from several nationally known blogs.

Daily Kos, June 29, 2008: “They Can Never Take Away Our FREEDOM!!!”

The Louisiana legislature should be more wary than most of the Dover trap: It was there, way back in 1987, that [...]

To all of our friends across the country who answered our call to write to the Louisiana legislature and to Gov. Jindal in opposition to SB 733, the “LA Science Education Act”:
In keeping with our southern tradition of good manners, we would like to thank all of the organizations and individuals who helped the LA [...]

Press Release: LA Coalition for Science, June 22, 2008

(1) New York Times editorial and major scientific societies call for Jindal’s veto of SB 733

(2) Escalating Discovery Institute involvement in promoting SB 733

Baton Rouge, LA, June 22, 2008 — The New York Times has noticed the Louisiana legislature’s passage of SB 733, the “LA Science Education [...]

Nine of the nation’s premier scientific societies have called upon Gov. Jindal to veto SB 733.

American Institute of Biological Sciences (pdf), co-signed by seven major scientific societies, June 13, 2008:

American Ornithologists Union
American Society of Mammalogists
Botanical Society of America
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society of Systematic Biologists
Society for the Study of Evolution

American Association [...]