Ohio State Board of Education Repeals “Bad Science” Lesson Plan; Creationists are annoyed.

15th February 2006

Ohio State Board of Education Repeals “Bad Science” Lesson Plan; Creationists are annoyed.

posted in Creationism by themaiden |

What can I say? We won. The Ohio School Board came to its senses and removed the bad science from its lesson plans.

By an 11-4 vote, the OSBE complied with the Darwinists who were urging the OSBE to repeal both the benchmark and the lesson plan. The 11 Board members who supported repealing the policy were apparently unmoved by the fact that recent polls indicated that 68.8 percent of Ohioans believe that “[b]iology teachers should teach Darwin%u2019s theory of evolution, but also the scientific evidence against it.” While the policy was repealed, the vote drew support from pro-critical analysis Board members because of an amendment sending the lesson plan and benchmark to an OSBE subcommittee for further review, followed by recommendation to the Board.

Evolution News & Views: Ohio State Board of Education Repeals Critical Analysis Policy; Sends to Subcommittee for Further Review and Recommendation

Those at the Center for Science and Culture do still seem convinced that facts are something subject to popular vote.

Other than a few odd comments like “multiple Board members spoke about the Board’s imprudence of deleting the carefully considered critical analysis of evolution benchmark”– odd because the Board voted 11-4 for killing the initiative, meaning that ‘multiple’ means ‘four’– and a consistent and repetitive head-in-the-sand kind of denial by ommission of the fact the the lesson plan was riddled with bad science, the post is mostly venting. Sorry about your loss. Hmmm… no, not really.

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1 On February 16th, 2006, Karl said:

Following are facts extreme evolutionists don’t want the public to know.

1. I am a recently retired public middle school mathematics teacher in West Virginia with over 30 years experience as an educator including administration.

For the last five years of my full-time career, with the full knowledge of State, County, and ACLU officials, I demonstrated to my students that mathematics proves beyond the shadow of doubt that evolutionism is nonsense. The students saw that the evidence clearly shows that every item associated with humans, animals and plants are Intelligent Designs and Intelligent Design is science because it is observable by billions of people trillions of times, always has been, always will be. I always let them figure it out for themselves and allowed them to believe what they chose, but at least they were exposed to the scientific facts that extremists want to censor from the minds of public school students. After the lesson a student from an atheist family said, “Evolution is silly.”

2. Currently, as a substitute teacher, I have contact with more public school students than ever and take advantage of every opportunity to provide them with the facts described above.

3. Evolutionists are bluffing when they say their beliefs are scientific. Be sure to look at the list of evolutionists who refuse the debate challenge from my friend Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo. See the list at http://www.csulb.edu/~jmastrop/. Click on the Life Science Prize at the bottom.

Karl Priest

2 On April 7th, 2007, speedwell said:

Karl, honey, when you manage to demonstrate that the so-called “intelligent designer” can be observed and demonstrated, then there’s a guy out there who will pay you a million dollars. Until then, your assertions are crap.

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