Lousiana Science Education Act - setting Science Education back 100 years

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OK, all you centers of higher education, please note that the next generation of Lousiana graduates will require remedial Science studies before they can compete with other students.

In a baldly political move, they have added language directing teachers to

"...create and foster an environment that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."

Human cloning isn't a theory. And none of these issues are controversial within the scientific community.

As I have stated before, we have Scientific Method. If anyone has a theory, they should publish a paper describing a contradictory view for peer review. If the view is valid, the prevailing theory will be updated to reflect new findings.

Intelligent Design, Creationism, and other 'theories' are not scientific. There have been no scientific papers published for peer review on any of these topics, so they should be limited to religious or philosophical classes, not Science.