South Carolina Approves Guidelines Requiring Critical Analysis of Evolution

At last, the THEORY of evolution can actually be discussed in a classroom without the students questioning it being made to feel like idiots. The only idiots I know, concerning this subject, are the ones who hold to this THEORY as if it was fact, and refuse to hear any other conflicting theories.

(AgapePress) - A lawmaker in South Carolina is hailing the approval of new evolutionary biology standards for public high schools. The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee has approved these standards, which require students to “summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.”
State Senator Mike Fair, a member of the Education Oversight Committee, believes the update of the public schools’ biology curriculum guidelines is a step in the right direction. “That, we think, is going to give a new freedom to teachers and a new freedom to the students in the science classrooms around South Carolina,” he says.
With these standards in place, students will be less afraid to ask questions, Fair asserts. And likewise, these educational objectives will give teachers the freedom “to answer questions and to do what we think good science is all about, and that is to always be asking questions,” he says.
Opponents of the new standards want to protect “philosophical materialism,” the South Carolina senator contends. He describes this mindset as a “religion” that runs rampant on college campuses.
“Biology departments in the universities around our state are absolutely controlled by people who are afraid, for some reason or another, to look into and encourage students to look at all aspects of the question of evolution,” Fair says. He believes the newly established biology standards will help change this situation.
According to the Seattle, Washington-based Discovery Institute, South Carolina is the fifth U.S. state to require students to learn about scientific criticisms of evolution. The state’s new guidelines do not, however, require the teaching of alternative theories to Darwinian evolution.
Senator Fair believes the new biology standards for South Carolina high schools will help create an atmosphere where science education can flourish without materialist ideology. Also, he says it is his hope that these guidelines will be a precursor to allowing alternatives to the theory of evolution, such as intelligent design, to be taught in the state’s schools.

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One Response to “South Carolina Approves Guidelines Requiring Critical Analysis of Evolution”

  1. beth Says:

    I dont think anyone (Christian or non) would have a problem in schools teaching that evolution is not fact but a theory held by the Godless. I want my kids to know what it is so that they are able to talk intelligently about the subject to non-believers; however, the problem arises when the possibility of an omniscient God creating the universe is not taught as well. One thing’s for sure—-as we would say here in TN —-This aint your Grandmas’ school system.

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