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South Carolina Textbook Controversy

By gregladen on December 26, 2007.

You already know about the controversy in South Carolina. Now is your opportunity to put in your two cents.

Kansas City dot Com, which is NOT a South Carolina newspaper, has a short article on the story:

The debate over how to teach the origin of species in public high schools could resurface in January, when the South Carolina Board of Education meets.

The divided state panel withheld its endorsement of two biology textbooks this month when board member Charles W. McKinney pointed to dozens of questions raised in critiques by Horace D. Skipper, a retired Clemson University professor.

And, they have a comment section attached to this article, so you can go and chime in. HERE.

To refresh your memory, the two textbooks are standard textbooks that include good science, and the retired professor is a Kreationist Kook. Go back to my original post if you want to get copies of the Skipper's comments and textbook authors Miller and Levine's response.

Oh, in case you need some incentive to join in, here is an excerpt from one of the comments already posted:

It's a real shame that school board members have to feel intimidated to teach the truth or to even be able to present more than one theory. Evolution is only a "theory" and nothing more, and an untrue one at that.

Help is on the way to the embattled school boards who desperately want to teach creationism/Intelligent Design in their schools. Against the backdrop of a nation embroiled in debate and legal battles over whether Intelligent Design or evolution, or both, should be taught in the classroom, The Quest for Right, a series of 7 textbooks designed for the public schools, proclaims a DAY OF VICTORY!

Go get 'em!

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Oh, MAN! Did you go to the website "The Quest for Right" alluded to that stupid comment?

You, as a member of the Scientific Counsel are a FREAKIN' PAGAN who uses your worship of Cybele to develop your lies about the evolution of the eye and cover up the truth about Quantum Mysticism.

I should probably disavow my affiliation with you if I do intend to run for School Board in Mounds View.

The "comment" about the "Quest For Right" books is bogus it's an advertisement posing as a comment. Like the books, the comment is pseudoscientific babble, with no information content and no scientific validity whatsoever.

The author of the comment, C. David Parsons (self-described "biblical scholar and scientist extraordinare"), is also the author of this bogus "vanity-press type" publication, which is typical Young Earth Creationist pseudoscience. It is not real science in any sense of the word.

Read the QOR advertising website, http://questforright.com: The only really positive review is from one preacher - not a scientist. Another review is from the publisher (!), which is a "pay-for-publishing (="vanity press") publisher: "Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, is a Christian based, family owned, main-line publishing organization with a mission to discover and market unknown authors." - http://www.tatepublishing.com/index.php.

Tate apparently "markets" only to small specialty Christian bookshops. Tate is by no means an actual scientific publishing house. The slick ads and website for QOR are probably part of Tate's marketing ploy. Tate also gets very bad press at http://www.writers.net/forum/read/13/8577/8577Vf

QOR's website, "http://questforright.com," was registered almost three years ago, on March 20, 2005, by "David Parsons" (possibly the QOR author, "C. David Parsons"?) of Smyrna, GA. The e-mail contact for the "questforright.com" website is "sales@bradleybuildings.com" of Smyrna, GA. The e-mail contact for the "bradleybuildings.com" website is "Clarence Parsons, bradleybuildings@aol.com." Any guesses on whether "C. David Parsons" is also "Clarence Parsons"?