South Carolina education panel agrees to reconsider teaching evolution

An education oversight panel has put off a final recommendation on the state's biology teaching standards at the urging of a state senator who wants alternatives to evolution - including creationism - taught in classrooms.

The Education Oversight Committee voted Monday to recommend approval of the state's biology content standards, but by an 8-7 vote, the panel removed for further study the wording that deals with teaching evolution.

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State Sen. Mike Fair, a panel member, wants the education department to change the standards to encourage teaching alternatives to the theory of evolution. Fair, R-Greenville, also has proposed a bill that would give lawmakers more say on biology curriculum.

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Karen Floyd, a Republican candidate for state education superintendent, has said she will encourage the teaching of intelligent design in public schools during her campaign.



http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/13398402.htm

that they can deem what is appropriate science :eyes: and so it begins again...

"Fair, R-Greenville, also has proposed a bill that would give lawmakers more say on biology curriculum."
:wtf:
We've got these sort of idiots in GA too. :(

Here in Kansas these kinds of idiots ooze out of every crack(pot).

The USA is rapidly devolving intellectually.

I wonder if these idiots believe in germ theory or the theory of gravity?
If they don't then there's no need to fear infection or falling - God will save them. :sarcasm:

That is that is the direction the state is going.

You know, the ones who believe in high-falutin' notions like science.

for, if it were true, there would be less voters voting for Repukes . . .

Red staters -- those that can still think -- will have to flee to get an actual education.

But by then, America's civil war may have happened, and the Blue States will hopefully be a different country, anyway...

and that's probably the scariest thing of all.

Maybe I meant "people will have to flee across their borders" to get an actual education.

and bob jones. and on, and on, and on. and their ranks will grow. this nation is fucked. so is the rest of the world.

welcome to the future.

n/t