Last week, the Utah State School Board made the right decision in adopting a new set of science standards for elementary and high schools in the state. (The middle school standards were updated in 2015.)
This is remarkable only because the board had to first suffer through several public hearings and one final meeting with five hours of additional — though not new — comments. Many of those comments were from good Utahns with precious little understanding of what science is, and therefor little grasp of how it should be taught.
The objections, as they have been since Huxley stood up to Bishop Wilberforce, were mostly from those who are made uncomfortable by such ideas as evolution, climate change and other bits of knowledge that, in their view, unjustly diminish the centrality of God, humans or the earth.