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[Phys-l] Law suit over controversial teache 'corbett' in Capistrano



This was reported in Education Week with the headline:
Teacher Can't Be Sued Over Alleged Hostility to Religion, Court Says

But in Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518864,00.html

The headline is:
Student Wins Suit After Teacher Says Creationism 'Superstitious Nonsense'

Now admittedly the story from Fox is from 2009, but for some reason the
latest story about the teacher has not made it to Fox, but is in many other
news sources. Actully there were 20 allegations in the orignial suit and
only 1 was upheld. Now if the teacher had said that "science shows that
creationism is nonsense" he might not have even lost on this one point.
Since the latest story is not yet on FOX I am wondering what they are going
to do to slant it. Virtually all news sources are calling it a win for the
teacher and agree with it.

But the latest report in Ed Week was that the circuit court threw out the
entire suit against the teacher.

So it seems that FOX despite the fact that they report fairly well about
science and do not inject creationist rhetoric into their science articles,
are in favor of creationism. Again conservative scientists need to speak
out about this sort of nonsense.

There was a previous suit of a Capistrano biology teacher who taught
creationism, and was censored by the school district. The teacher lost,
but the court according to some reports ruled that evolution was not a
religion because it did not say anything about ultimate creation according
to the dictionary definition. Hmmmm.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX