This is my letter to the editor of the courier Journal

School science hotly debated in KY

 

This articles quotations of me are misleading.

My speech may be found in it's full text on www.biblesmack.blogspot.com under Thursday, July 25, 2013

"July 23rd speech requesting that the Kentucky department of Education Reject Common CORE curriculum science standards"

  My argument was not about the psychological effects of evolutionary teaching. that was a side note, not specific to the science standards. I said "evolution as fact" is a lie; not evolution is a lie. (evolution is a theory) Primarily because it commits the logical fallacy of induction, since human history never observed even 1 million yearsIn the title the word "facist" is misleading.  I was refering to corporate entities controlling curriculum inserting religious ideas without accountability from the states and schoolboards.  I am about to debate these issues with anyone in a formal setting.

here is the article

FRANKFORT, KY. — Supporters and critics of Kentucky’s new science education standards clashed over evolution and climate change Tuesday amid a high-stakes debate on overhauling academic content in public schools.
Opponents ridiculed the new standards as “fascist” and “atheistic” and said they promoted thinking that leads to “genocide” and “murder.”
Supporters said the education changes are vital if Kentucky is to keep pace with other states and allow students to prepare for college and careers.
Nearly two dozen parents, teachers, scientists and advocacy groups commented at a state Department of Education hearing on the Next Generation Science Standards — a broad set of guidelines that will revamp content in grades K-12 and help meet requirements from a 2009 law that called for improving education.
“Students in the commonwealth both need and deserve 21st-century science education grounded in inquiry, rich in content and internationally benchmarked,” said Blaine Ferrell, a representative from the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, a science advocacy group that endorses the standards.
Dave Robinson, a biology professor at Bellarmine University, said neighboring states have been more successful in recruiting biotechnology companies, and Kentucky could get left behind in industrial development if students fail to learn the latest scientific concepts.
But the majority of comments during the two-hour hearing came from critics who questioned the validity of evolution and climate change and railed against the standards as a threat to religious liberty, at times drawing comparisons to Soviet-style communism.
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.”