South Carolina Legislator Wants To Force Students To Learn Creationism

Mike Fair, a state senator from South Carolina, has made his latest bid to put creationism in the lesson plans of the state’s public schools. This past February, he successfully blocked the state education oversight committee from using the term “natural selection” in their science standards. Now, he has proposed new legislation that essentially instructs teachers to offer alternative theories to evolution in their curriculum. He does this by claiming that “evolution, as with any aspect of science, is continually open to and subject to experimental and observational testing,” which then opens the door for discussion of alternate theories such as creationism.

While Fair had a similar law shot down last spring, do his proposed standards have a chance of making it to the classroom?  Steven Salzberg offers his opinion and shares the full proposed changes.

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