Possibly the biggest stunner of the night was agreement by all three that creationism should be taught along with evolution in St. Johns County science classes, not just in church or at home.<\/p>\n
[Ronald] Renuart said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evolution is still a theory. It should be taught as a theory, not as a fact. Creationism, divine intervention \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a lot of people share this belief.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Kendall agreed with that statement.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evolution standards are being thrust on our students in science class,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Academic freedom allows our students to question that science has it right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
[Mike] Davis said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The school should present both ideas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
No one in the auditorium challenged or commented on those statements, which equated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific creationism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d essentially religious dogma, to empirical science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One wonderful aspect of that story is the reporter’s decision to include that last sentence and the editor’s agreement to leave it in. We need more of that! But that positive is balanced with the negative of that sentence’s other content: no one present challenged the statements.<\/p>\n
Election season is off to a roaring start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kim Kendall was a significant voice against the teaching of sound science in 2008. She polished her growing activism skills on a determined fight against the teaching of evolution when the state science standards were being revised and approved. Failing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-q2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1644,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1644","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":0},"title":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called academic freedom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been without Internet for a few days and so haven't been able to get this update posted. It's another article about the race for House District 17: Renuart facing two challengers, Davis and Kendall, in re-election bid. Nothing really new here, but it's worth reading for the it-would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-so-sad quotes\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1644#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":389,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=389","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":1},"title":"Where did those anti-evolution resolutions come from?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A lengthy article in the Florida Baptist Witness doesn't come right out and say it, but the source of the anti-evolution resolutions seems to be: Kendall [Kim Kendall, a leading activist opposing the standards and a member of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville] agreed with the idea of academic freedom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":393,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=393","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":2},"title":"Report from the field: St. Johns school board meeting","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science member Kristine Hoppenworth attended the St. Johns County school board meeting during which the board approved an anti-evolution resolution. Here is Kristine's report: ------------------------ Hello!\u00c2\u00a0 I attended the St. Johns School Board Meeting last night in St. Augustine at 6 pm.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the resolution wasn't on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Our Science Standards"","block_context":{"text":"Our Science Standards","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":317,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=317","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":3},"title":"Last night’s science standards meeting","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel reports that several people attended last night's meeting in Orlando about the new draft science standards with the objective of promoting intelligent design and complaining about evolution. But several people who spoke Thursday urged state Department of Education officials to allow schools to teach intelligent design and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Our Science Standards"","block_context":{"text":"Our Science Standards","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":542,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=542","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":4},"title":"An important question goes unasked","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Florida House of Representatives recently 11 lawmakers were bogged down in a lengthy discussion concerning biological evolution. A bill specifically singling out the subject of evolution as taught in the public school classroom dominated well over an hour in the Friday Schools and Learning committee meeting. Despite the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08"","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=336","url_meta":{"origin":1614,"position":5},"title":"It’s hitting the fan now","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The issue of evolution in the state science standards, and the fate of those standards because of evolution, made the headlines today. Florida Citizens for Science members and the National Center for Science Education were very busy yesterday with interviews for these stories. The main strategy being used here by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}