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鈥淭o teach that natural selection is the answer to origins is wrong. I don鈥檛 think it should be taught as fact.鈥?<Mike>Fair, S.C. legislator]
Ignorant barely begins to describe this statement. Mike Fair clearly doesn鈥檛 have the faintest grasp of biology or genetics. He鈥檚 the last person that anyone should want to weigh in on science standards. His behavior goes far beyond mere ignorance, though: not only is he wrong, but he wants to use the power of the state to impose his religious views, under the guise of science, on every student in South Carolina鈥檚 schools. No wonder South Carolina is perennially ranked near the bottom of the country in public education. I have a confession to make. I grew up in South Carolina and went through the public schools there, from kindergarten right through high school. I met lots of guys like : popular, plays on the football team, student body president. These guys are usually bullies (we鈥檝e all seen the movie), and that鈥檚 just what Fair is demonstrating now: he wants to bully every teacher, and every child, into listening <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com/trunks-et-sacs-damier-ceinture-28>Trunks et sacs Damier ceinture</a> to his ignorant views of science. I鈥檝e no doubt that if Fair could require prayer in every school 鈥?Christian prayer, that is 鈥?he鈥檇 do that too. I grew up surrounded by this kind of nonsense, but I didn鈥檛 speak up then because I would have been ostracized. Well, I鈥檓 speaking up now. Fair and his colleagues in the Republican-dominated S.C. House of Representatives argue that no, they aren鈥檛 forcing teachers to teach creationism 鈥?they just want to teach the controversy. Equally appalling is the position of the S.C. Superintendent of Education, , :
鈥淲e ought to teach both sides and let students draw their own conclusions.鈥?
No, you shouldn鈥檛. There is no scientific controversy about evolution. Evolutionary theory is based on an enormous edifice of facts, with literally tens of thousands of scientific papers providing evidence to support it. There is no competing theory out there. Ironically, three years ago Fair introduced a bill to prevent the imposition of Islamic-based Sharia law in South Carolina. He
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Reading this sent my irony meter way into the red zone. Let me see if I understand: Mike Fair doesn鈥檛 want religion and civil laws to be 鈥渋nextricably connected鈥?鈥?but he does want to require that public, state-funded schools teach his religious view of the creation myth. I guess what he meant to say is that it鈥檚 okay to mix religious fundamentalism and civil law, as long as it鈥檚 Mike Fair鈥檚 brand of Christian fundamentalism. South Carolina doesn鈥檛 even need its own set of science standards, nor does Texas, Louisiana, or Kansas. The laws of science don鈥檛 change when you cross state lines or national borders. Allowing politicians to set science standards is a recipe for disaster, and is one reason why the U.S. continues to lag the rest of the world in science education鈥攁s South Carolina has once again demonstrated.
