You already know about the controversy in South Carolina. Now is your opportunity to put in your two cents.Kansas City dot Com, which is NOT a South Carolina newspaper, has a short article on the story:<\/p>\n
The debate over how to teach the origin of species in public high schools could resurface in January, when the South Carolina Board of Education meets.The divided state panel withheld its endorsement of two biology textbooks this month when board member Charles W. McKinney pointed to dozens of questions raised in critiques by Horace D. Skipper, a retired Clemson University professor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And, they have a comment section attached to this article, so you can go and chime in. HERE.<\/a>To refresh your memory, the two textbooks are standard textbooks that include good science, and the retired professor is a Kreationist Kook. Go back to my original post<\/a> if you want to get copies of the Skipper’s comments and textbook authors Miller and Levine’s response.Oh, in case you need some incentive to join in, here is an excerpt from one of the comments already posted:<\/p>\n
It’s a real shame that school board members have to feel intimidated to teach the truth or to even be able to present more than one theory. Evolution is only a “theory” and nothing more, and an untrue one at that.Help is on the way to the embattled school boards who desperately want to teach creationism\/Intelligent Design in their schools. Against the backdrop of a nation embroiled in debate and legal battles over whether Intelligent Design or evolution, or both, should be taught in the classroom, The Quest for Right, a series of 7 textbooks designed for the public schools, proclaims a DAY OF VICTORY!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Go get ’em!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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