On Monday, the Tennessee Senate approved a bill that would allow the state?s teachers to discuss creationism in the classroom, and challenge scientific theories including evolution and global warming, by a vote of 24-8.
The legislation would allow teachers to present the ?scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses? of ?controversial? topics such as ?biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.?
It?s being called the ?monkey bill? by science education advocates, a reference to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, where a Tennessee schoolteacher was prosecuted for violating a law against teaching evolution in public schools.
The bill will now be considered by the state?s House of Representatives, which passed similar legislation last April. If it?s approved, it will fall to Tennessee governor Bill Haslam to sign or veto the measure.
Haslam hasn?t weighed in on the bill, and has said he plans to discuss it with the state?s board of education before making a decision.
?It is a fair question what the General Assembly?s role is ? That?s why we have a state board of education,? Haslam told the Tennesseean earlier this week.
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