{"id":1182,"date":"2008-01-21T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/21\/crazy-floridians\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:08:35","slug":"crazy-floridians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/crazy-floridians\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Floridians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your amusement, a selection from the public comments on the fight over science standards in Florida.<!--more--><UL><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;How is anyone&#8217;s life improved by believing in evolution?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I will not allow you to teach my child this no matter what you put in your curriculum. I stand for Christ and his creation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To teach only one theory is communistic.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This is unacceptable, unless Biblical Creationism is taught alongside evolution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I strongly disagree with the term &#8216;evolution&#8217; being used in kindergarten or any grade level. I would change the term &#8216;evolution&#8217; to a more user friendly term such as &#8216;adaptations.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Are we begging for trouble or what? For goodness sakes remember your audience. We are a part of the Bible Belt. Why open old wounds. This could be titled something different. Why not just diversity?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Evolution is a big area of controversy with many Christians. I have a problem with presenting this as a benchmark to parents that may object to their children being taught about evolution or even bringing it up at the kindergarten level.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Please do not let these liberal wackos in the Washington foundations warp our young minds into thinking that their existence is an accident.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How can anyone accept the theory of evolution? The last time I went to the zoo the monkeys weren&#8217;t evolving into a man.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/UL><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staugustine.com\/stories\/120907\/news_36.shtml\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your amusement, a selection from the public comments on the fight over science standards in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-j4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}