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Very good article about Yecke. It makes an interesting point that the State of Florida wooed the Scripps Institute with hundreds of millions of dollars to FL, but hires an education administrator who backs creationism. Talk about a disharmoney of agendas!

This is the qoute that really tells the story:
"University science professors and a national group that had concerns about how science curriculum was rewritten in Minnesota say it's ironic that Florida would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to woo The Scripps Research Institute to the state, yet hire a top educator who does not accept Darwinian evolution — something Scripps scientists say they prove every day in their experiments.

"It's inconsistent," said Wesley Elsberry, information project director for the National Center for Science Education and a critic of Yecke. "Essentially, if a creationist curriculum passed, the people graduating from Florida public high schools will be at a disadvantage to get into colleges and into programs that would help them get jobs at Scripps."

And very true. The Florida education system would be incapable of producing graduates who could work for one of the shining stars in the state's research and development efforts!