Saturday, June 04, 2005
The Juicy Bits
Red State Rabble missed this when it first came around, better late than never, here are the juicy bits from a May 22 New York Times Magazine interview with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings:
What do you make of the current controversy in Kansas over whether creationism should be taught along with evolution?
I can tell you that in Texas we did go through this issue, when Bush was governor and I was working for him. We ended up – the curriculum says basically that both points of view are taught from a factual basis.
How can creationism be taught from a factual basis? Are you implying that events in the Bible should be taught in the public schools as literal history?
I’m not implying anything. I’m just saying that my recollection from my Texas days
is that both points of view were presented.
