Antievolution in Iowa

Iowa has become the fourth state during this legislative year to have an anti-evolution bill introduced in its legislature. According to the NCSE:

Entitled the "Evolution Academic Freedom Act," HF 183 contains three sections. In the first, it is contended that "current law does not expressly protect the right of instructors to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding chemical and biological evolution," that "instructors have experienced or feared discipline, discrimination, or other adverse consequences as a result of presenting the full range of scientific views regarding chemical and biological evolution," and that "existing law does not expressly protect students from discrimination due to their positions or views regarding biological or chemical evolution."

This bill follows current trends in that it uses terms like "academic freedom", "protection", and "full range of scientific views" to disguise religious intent. And it fits into the same strategy that I discussed in a previous post, which is to give the impression that evolution is a weak theory and that there's a lot of scientific controversy about the validity of the theory of evolution. Both of these statements are false.