Creationist efitorial screed in Gazette is shameful

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Charleston Gazette

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

State standards enforce evolution propaganda

Editor:

Glenn Branch, (of the wrongly named “National Center for Science Education”) has given his blessing to the new state science standards. I guarantee that had the standards not met Branch’s approval he would have been howling.

What folks do not know is that the NCSE is an enforcer of evolutionism propaganda. The recent Gazette article said the NCSE “defends the teaching of evolution.” They cry “creationism,” but as the history of the Kanawha County Schools evolution battles and previous state science standards battle proves, the NCSE will not even allow scientific criticism of evolution. My website (www.insectman.us) has the documentation including FOIA facts of how deceitful evolutionists are. Without censorship evolution would not last a week.

There will be responses to this letter calling me names and citing supposed “facts” of evolution like “bacterial resistance.” That and any other argument to support evolution are easily refuted with science. Simply contact me via my website.

As for “Climate Change”, Branch said, “They’re now out of the hands of politicians who want to meddle with them.” The NCSE never hesitates to bring in politicians to support its dogma. Global temperatures have fluctuated for thousands of years. The fear of “Climate Change” fanatics is for students to study data that disputes the slant of the NCSE. Actually it is a tenant of their Mother Earth religion and they will use their version of the data to bring about more of their liberal nonsense that is destroying society.

Karl Priest

Poca

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My response - sent to paper 5/21

"Creationist 'InsectMan' wants your kids to fail"

The May 20 editorial by Karl Priest attacks the highly respected National Center for Science Education. It was thoroughly insulting to me and anyone who treasures the benefits of a quality education.

Despite Mr Priest's uninformed invective, evolution is a fact. Darwin did not 'invent' it. He, and others of his time, only recognized it. The ONLY debates over evolution concern the mechanisms by which it operates. Absolutely no credible biological scientist denies evolution's existence.

Mr Priest seems unable to understand that churches are for teaching religion, public schools for teaching most else. Learning actual science is vitally important for advancement as children enter a grown up world of competition. Even colleges may pass up on applicants who lack a proper science education in favor of ones with a better chance at succeeding.

Faith has a place. Religion asks "why?," science asks, and answers "how."

Mr Priest's insistance on insults reveals his absence of credibility. Don't make West Virginia, my ancestral home, a laughing stock. I'm proud to be a WV Hillbilly and want its people to be respected, not jeered as willfully ignorant "hillbilly hicks."

Support quality science education. For your childrens' sake.

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