Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers reveal the extents of their scientific illiteracy as they react to national standards calling for their students to have a basic understanding of biological evolution.
“The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science — Darwin made it up,” – Rep. Ben Waide, R-Madisonville
by LINDA B. BLACKFORD | THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Kentucky’s Senate Republicans pushed successfully in 2009 to link the state’s testing program to national education standards, but three years later, they’re questioning the results.
Several GOP lawmakers questioned new proposed student standards and tests that delve deeply into biological evolution during a Monday meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
In an exchange with officials from ACT, the company that prepares Kentucky’s new state testing program, those lawmakers discussed whether evolution was a fact and whether the biblical account of creationism also should be taught in Kentucky classrooms.
“I would hope that creationism is presented as a theory in the classroom, in a science classroom, alongside evolution,” Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, said Tuesday in an interview.
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