Slap at evolution cut out in Cobb
24th May 2005
By Kristina Torres 5/24/05
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Amir Mirsajedin did his work quietly Monday. No scientist heralded him. No judge applauded. No creationist peered over his shoulder.
Then again, the stickers didn’t put up much of a fight as Mirsajedin and 13 others began removing them from Cobb County’s textbooks. Is evolution “a theory, not a fact,” as the disclaimer printed on the stickers says? Within a matter of weeks, no student here will be able to point to that crib note stuck by the school board onto the inside of the textbooks’ front cover.
Stickers that say evolution is a theory, not a fact, were being cut out of Cobb County textbooks Monday. A judge ordered the removal, ruling the stickers had an implicit religious message.