A state senator’s skepticism about Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory held up the full adoption of South Carolina’s K-12 standards for what students learn in science class.
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State Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, objected to the proposed revision of the evolution standard, which asked students to “analyze and interpret data, using the principles of natural selection, to make predictions about the long term biological changes that may occur within two populations of the same species that become geographically isolated from one another.”
“There’s not but one theory coming from the principles of natural selection,” Fair said. “There are more than one (theory of evolution). But the one that is being taught and will continue to be taught is Darwinism.”
Phillip Bowers of Pickens, House Speaker Bobby Harrell's appointee on the Oversight Committee, said he shared Fair's desire to revisit the treatment of evolution and asked whether “we're teaching something that is proven to be false.”
COLUMBIA: SC senator’s Darwin skepticism halts evolution standard’s adoption | Education | The Island Packet
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