Good News, South Carolina Won't Require Students to Study Evolution as Dogma

In South Carolina, the newspaper The State reports that South Carolina's newly proposed science standards won't require evolution to be taught as dogmatic fact:

A proposed change to the state's science standard for teaching evolution -- OK'd by education leaders Tuesday and sent to two South Carolina education boards for a final approval -- will not allow a teacher to lecture on creationism, said state Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville.

Instead, it asks teachers and students to treat evolution as a...