Nodding to the former workers at the Saint Louis Science Museum who may or may not be out there,
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) reports the Missouri Baptist Convention has voted to withdraw support if William Jewel continued teaching evolution. As is per usual with such pronouncements, the MBC seems horribly confused about what it wants,
Although the MBC?s Burnett told the Sun-News that the MBC’s board was advocating that Genesis be taught as fact in theology classes but not in biology classes, the chair of the MBC’s executive board, the Reverend Jay Scribner, was quoted as saying that creationism was appropriate for science classes as well: ‘Any Christian school needs to embrace and espouse the tenet of creationism.’
Appropriately, William Jewel just ignored them.
For those interested in such issues, the NCSE has set up a blog like news feed for biology education and attacks on evolution.
As a short aside, Sean Carroll hits the Discovery Institute over its collective heads for misrepresenting his work.