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STANDARDS EXCLUDE HUMAN EVOLUTION STATEWIDE TEST DOESN'T INCLUDE THE CONCEPT, AND IT'S NOT REQUIRED, EITHER.(Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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September 26, 1999
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Byline: Brian Weber News Education Writer Staff writer Bill Scanlon contributed to this report.
There will be no questions about human evolution on Colorado's first statewide science test because state standards don't specifically tell schools to teach it.
That requirement was deliberately left out when the standards were written in 1995 by a group that included people opposed to giving more credence to evolution than ``creation science.''
``I believe in divine creation,'' said Clair Orr, chairman of the state board of education, who helped write ...
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