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...state's curriculum commission to alter a guideline for the teaching of evolution in California's schools. Darwinian evolution will no longer be presented as fact, but as both fact and theory, an equivocation pleasing to the religious right because few understand that to scientists "theory" is not a synonym for mere "hypothesis." Among other concessions, mention of a 1987 Supreme Court decision denying scientific status to so-called creation science will be deleted...