"Utah legislators rejected a bill that would have required the State Board of Education to establish curriculum requirements stressing that the scientific theory about the origin of species and evolution is not empirically proven." The Deseret News
The original link seems to have disappeared, so the one above was inserted from the Deseret News archives.
Elizabeth writes:
If you want to read the actual packet that is mentioned in the first article go here: http://bio100.byu.edu/
I believe it's the same one. All my Biology professors had to say about it is that you shouldn't try to mix science and religion because 1) we're probably getting most of it wrong anyway; 2) you can't very well mix laws and faith; 3) when we're dead God will tell us how he did it all.
I haven't actually read the packet, although I think at the beginning of the semester they told us we were supposed to…