{"id":8624,"date":"2010-08-30T22:11:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/30\/should-creationism-be-taught-i\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:11:25","slug":"should-creationism-be-taught-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/should-creationism-be-taught-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Should creationism be taught in (Florida) schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.  But unfortunately, of the 12 candidates running for school board in one Florida County, only three, Rick Nesbit, Gunnar Paulson and Carol Oyenarte, said &#8220;No&#8221; when recently asked the question.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two candidates thought it should be taught in a world religion class (and I&#8217;ve got to wonder about a school board candidate who thinks we have world religion classes in a system struggling to fund arts and music). Five of the 12 unequivocally took the position that creationism should be taught: Bonnie Burgess, April Griffin, Felicia Moss, Wayne Gabb and Jodi Wood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/article\/20100813\/NEWS\/100819717\/1109\/sports?Title=Voice-of-the-Voters\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the campaign video of one of the pro-science candidates:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iTcf9j4WTD8&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricknesbit.com\/donate\/\">here is where you can click<\/a> if you want to give him money so he wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. But unfortunately, of the 12 candidates running for school board in one Florida County, only three, Rick Nesbit, Gunnar Paulson and Carol Oyenarte, said &#8220;No&#8221; when recently asked the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2f6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624"}],"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=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}