{"id":2166,"date":"2014-07-10T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2014-07-10T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:52:54","slug":"creationism-in-holmes-county-school-board-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Creationism in Holmes County school board race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidates in a Holmes County, Florida, school board race participated in a political forum held at a Baptist Church this past weekend.\u00c2\u00a0Holmes County political forum held<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Moderating the event was West Pittman Baptist Church Pastor Eddie Eaton, who asked candidates to introduce themselves before beginning the question and answer session by asking about each candidate’s spiritual beliefs.<\/p>\n

All proclaimed Christian faith, and school board candidates expressed a desire to promote Creationism in Holmes County schools as opposed to Evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, that’s the only mention of creationism with no further details about what each candidate said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candidates in a Holmes County, Florida, school board race participated in a political forum held at a Baptist Church this past weekend.\u00c2\u00a0Holmes County political forum held: Moderating the event was West Pittman Baptist Church Pastor Eddie Eaton, who asked candidates … 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-yW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2208,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2208","url_meta":{"origin":2166,"position":0},"title":"Creationism in Pinellas County school board race","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NOTE: See update at the end of this post. 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