From the article: Kentucky – the home of the Creation Museum and Answers in Genesis – has a choice to make. The Next Generation Science Standards are being debated in the state, and there seems to be a lot of blowback. According to Cincinnati, opponents of the new education standards are afraid accurate knowledge of evolution will destroy the fabric of society and send us tumbling into a dystopian hellscape. I’m only exaggerating a little. One parent, Valerie O’Rear, said the standards promote an “atheistic world view” and a political agenda that pushes government control. Matt Singleton, a Baptist minister in Louisville who runs an Internet talk-radio program, called teachings on evolution a lie that has led to drug abuse, suicide and other social afflictions. “Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship almighty God,” Singleton said. “Instead, this fascist method teaches that our children are the property of the state.” At one point, opponent Dena Stewart-Gore of Louisville also suggested that the standards will marginalize students with religious beliefs, leading to ridicule and physiological harm in the classroom, and create difficulties for students with learning disabilities.“The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, adding that “we are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.” That’s right. Teaching accurate science will lead to genocide. Read more: care2/causes/what-really-happened-to-dinosaurs-scary-creationist-commercial-has-one-answer.html#ixzz2bUkO5QlR
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:43:08 +0000
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