Here we go again. Republican Representative Gary Chism has introduced another bill in the Mississippi House of Representatives, this time calling for “an instructional lesson on the evolution of humanity” that would be taught at the beginning of high school biology courses—but would “not be biased through selective instruction” and would “have equal instruction from educational materials that present arguments from both protagonists and antagonists of the theory of evolution.”
Keep in mind two things. One, evolution is not a point of controversy or debate in the scientific community. Second, it was Chism who last year introduced a bill that would have required a disclaimer saying evolution is a “controversial theory” be put on the inside front cover of every public school textbook that discusses the topic. The bill died in committee.