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MineralMan

(147,606 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 10:23 AM Oct 2018

Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution

Welcome to Arizona - Gateway to Ignorance by Way of Religion

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/creationist-helped-review-arizona-evolution-curriculum-10820376

Arizona Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped a young-earth creationist to serve last month on a committee tasked with revising the state's science curriculum standards on evolution.

Joseph Kezele, the president of the Arizona Origin Science Association, is a staunch believer in the idea that enough scientific evidence exists to back up the biblical story of creation. Douglas appointed him to an eight-member special working group at the Arizona Department of Education that completed a final review of the draft evolution teaching standards on August 30.

Kezele teaches biology at Arizona Christian University in Phoenix. He advocates teaching his version of "established, real science" in classrooms.

Evolution, he said, is a false explanation for life and should be taught so that students "can defend against it, if they want to."
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Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution (Original Post) MineralMan Oct 2018 OP
Creationist thinking is twisted in so many ways.. Permanut Oct 2018 #1

Permanut

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1. Creationist thinking is twisted in so many ways..
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:32 PM
Oct 2018

Just one example among many with this clown. Kezele is quoted in the article as saying "Evolution..is a false explanation for life..".

No one has claimed that evolution is an explanation for life, but rather for the CHANGES in living things. This distinction matters.

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