And now, for the Creationist Jam of the day:

Well known creationist, SC state senator Mike Fair, is getting his way it appears:

SC board wants students to question evolution

South Carolina’s Education Oversight Committee wants high school students to question evolution.

The independent agency’s board voted 7-4 Monday on biology standards that would require students to use scientific evidence to both support and discredit Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

The recommendation pushed by Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, will return to the state Board of Education for consideration. The committee and board must agree upon any change as part of the state’s required review of teaching standards. The two were at an impasse over the same issue in 2006.

Fair introduced the amendment in response to new language in the standards requiring the teaching of evolution. He blocked passage of the biology standards in February.

Fair told the committee he is concerned that Darwinism is being taught as fact to students and not as a “disproven theory” as he argued in a presentation titled, “The (Lack of) Science of Evolution.”

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