Evolutionary biology has recently been removed from a list of fields of study approved by the government for federal financial aid to low income college students.

Spokepeople for the Dept. of Education claim the omission is a mistake and that it will be returned to the list, (which still has yet to happen) and many scientists and other supporters of the study of evolution feel that this is another example of the government trying to undercut science in favor of a more strict creationist approach to education.

"One of them, Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist at Case Western Reserve University, said he learned about [the omission] from someone at the Department of Education, who got in touch with him after his essay on the necessity of teaching evolution appeared in The New York Times on Aug. 15. Dr. Krauss would not name his source, who he said was concerned about being publicly identified as having drawn attention to the matter."

Taken from the NYTimes