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Nov 12, 2005
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The state school board voted unanimously Thursday to keep a disclaimer in biology textbooks that describes evolution as "a controversial theory" after no one in the audience disputed the label, which has generated heated debate in the past.The board, in its vote to accept a committee's recommendations of science textbooks, agreed to continue carrying the disclaimer, which calls evolution "controversial" in the first paragraph and adds in the second that any statement about the origin of life is "not fact."State Superintendent Joe Morton, who recommended keeping the label in the texts, said he wasn't surprised that the subject received no discussion during the portion of the meeting devoted to public comment.