Stephen Jones quoting an an op-ed piece written by Linda Holloway, Chair of
the Kansas State Board of Education
*this* is where you got this!!! (can you tell my most recent novel is out
the door winging its way to the agent and I finally have time to wade
through my old e-mails?)
>As it was the Board actually *increased* the amount of teaching on
>evolution that schools in Kansas were required to do. So all the fuss that
>Kansas students would suddenly be disadvantaged by the Board's decision
>is irrational. On that basis they had been even *more* disadvantaged
>before, yet there was no national, indeed world-wide outcry previously!
as so much creationist garbage this bit of flotsom was not substantiated but
merely asserted. I've compared the original standards and the new ones. The
new ones leave out a substantial amount of extremely basic stuff. So,
Stephen, if you continue to parrot this assertion, you'd better find out why
she's saying this.
>
>The U.S. Supreme Court stated in the Edwards vs. Aguillard case, "If the
>Louisiana legislature's purpose was solely to maximize the
>comprehensiveness and effectiveness of science instruction, it would have
>encouraged the teaching of all scientific theories about the origins of
>humankind."
>
>Our children in Kansas deserve no less!
the implied lie here is that there are other scientific theory about the
origins of humankind. There are not. There's a lot of wishful thinking
pseudoscience, but nothing else.
The children in Kansas deserve more than pseudoscience!
Susan
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