AL HJR78

Urges the State Board of Education and school administrators to create an environment encouraging students to explore scientific questions and develop critical thinking skills on controversial scientific subjects including biological evolution, chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.

Urges school officials to refrain from prohibiting teachers from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review the scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in State Board of Education curriculum.

Specifies that the resolution is intended to support teaching of scientific information only and shall not be construed to promote any religious or nonreligious doctrine or discriminate based on religious beliefs.

Adopted by the House on April 6, 2017 and by the Senate on May 2, 2017.