Kentucky's GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/08/15/162345/kentuckys-gop-lawmakers-question.html

Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Linda B. Blackford | The Lexington Herald-Leader
Linda B. Blackford Herald-Leader

Kentucky's Senate Republicans pushed successfully in 2009 to tie the state's testing program to national education standards, but three years later, they're questioning the results.

Several GOP lawmakers questioned new proposed student standards and tests that delve deeply into biological evolution during a Monday meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education.

In an exchange with officials from ACT, the company that prepares Kentucky's new state testing program, those lawmakers discussed whether evolution was a fact and whether the biblical account of creationism also should be taught in Kentucky classrooms.

"I would hope that creationism is presented as a theory in the classroom, in a science classroom, alongside evolution," Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, said Tuesday in an interview.

[JoePhilly]

1. Let me explain how stupid her request is.

1) She is a right wing nut who hates public school teachers ... but she wants them to teach er kids religion. Hello?

2) Once you put that Creationist nonsense in school, it has to explain scientifically teh same things you claim evolution does not explain. And Creationism explains nothing.

3) Creationism predicts nothing. Evolution does.

These idiots don't get that by competing directly with evolution, their children will learn that only one of these theories explains anything.

[haele]

2. Typical right-wing view of education -

Sen. Givens probably believes just as fervently as he does in Creationism that, unless they are especially blessed enough to be born into a class where they can go to private school for a complete, reality-based education, children are only supposed to get enough reading, math and science education to read the Bible, return change at a cash register, and operate machinery without killing themselves. Most children need to realize that they live a separate reality of those who are born to service the wealthy, born to choose working for a wage or to be cast out to starve if they attempt to live their foolish dreams.

Because all us working peons should know that Gawd's blessing can only be reviled and actualized in money and power, proving not only that the Kings and Queens of Government and Captains of Industry are always the most holy and blessed amongst his creations, but the poor are the most sinful, and must never believe that there is a better life beyond the punishment they have incurred simply by being born from the wrong womb.



Haele

[Sick of the GOP]

3. What they'll be teaching: