Louisiana's Senate Education Committee rejected a bill onMay 2 to repeal a controversial law that allows teachers the right to supplementscience textbooks with information about evolution and creationism. The Louisiana ScienceEducation Act (LSEA) allows teachers to supplement standard textbooks withother materials that promote "critical thinking skills, logicalanalysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories [such as]evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."While the law expressly disavows any intent to promote "a particular setof religious beliefs," most observers, including LouisianaGovernor Bobby Jindal, understand the LSEA to allow teaching of creationismand intelligent design in public schools. The LSEA has been debated annuallysince its passage in 2008, and 70Nobel Prize winning scientists have urged that it be repealed, according tothe Associated Press.