Today, June 13th, is primary day in South Carolina. Most of the would-be Democratic nominees are running unopposed, but the Republican slate is packed full for a number of races.
The race for state Superintendent of Education has no fewer than 5 candidates running for the Republican nomination. The SCSE page has the response of each candidate during a recent debate to the question of what they thought about teaching “alternatives” to evolution. Read the responses and see what you think. The two front-runners in the race are supposedly Karen Floyd and Bob Staton, and the winner of the nomination will be heavily favored to win the general election. You can read more about Floyd’s opinion on teaching evolution here. Staton is a bit harder to pin down. Most agree that he doesn’t feel strongly about the issue, and therefore his answers tend to be tactfully vague.
Also on the ballot today is Oscar Lovelace challenging incumbent Governor Mark Sanford.
There are three candidates running for Lt. Governor. Incumbent André Bauer is being challenged by Mike Campbell and Henry Jordan. The views on teaching evolution among the first two are not a matter of public record as far as I know, but Jordan has, shall we say, a rather unsubtle opinion. He also has complementary views on religious diversity.
Anway, if you are from South Carolina, please get out and vote. There are obviously other issues to consider, so choose your candidates carefully.
Says Floyd: More and more scientists are publicly coming out in favor of an Intelligent Design Theory because that is what the evidence is telling them is true.
Who are these scientists? Names, please. At what rate are their numbers increasing? Failure to provide details and references is a sign of intellectual inexperience or dishonesty. Heaven help SC if she becomes Superintendent of Education.
Did Panda’s Thumb kill sc-scied.org ? I repeatedly get a database error when trying to access the site.
www.scpie.org, however, still loads. So there’s no justtice in the world. :)
Crud, it’s not working for me either.
Luckily, I already had the page open in my browser, so I’ll reproduce the responses below:
Would anybody like my lunch? I just read through the SC-PIE site, and I sudenly feel nauseous.
Would anybody like my lunch? I just read through the SC-PIE site, and I sudenly feel nauseous.
If you haven’t lost your lunch yet, make sure to read SC-PIE’s newsletters ( http://www.scpie.org/resourcesnewsletters.html ). That’s where you’ll find their craziest and/or most sickening stuff.
Oh, and if you’re going to vote in the SC primaries, remember that SC PIE seems to be big on Karen Floyd and Mark Sanford.
I used to live in S.C. but don’t anymore, so I can’t vote against the two (or 3?) anti-science ones or the two that don’t seem to know what the issue is.
Henry
Seems to me Jordan just deproved his own theory.
Made a monkey out of himself with his opinion.
Doctor of what, by the way? Must be Theology. No wait, “most scientists,” oops, I mean “theologians” disagree with his view.
Don’t like the guy, but I respect his directness. He’d probably have been better off in the polls not apologizing at all… which is sad in itself, but a honest politician is a rarity.
Re “Made a monkey out of himself with his opinion.”
Hey, isn’t that evidence for evolution? ;)
Henry
WIStv is reporting that Floyd received approximately 50% of the vote in yesterday’s primary, comfortably ahead of Staton (35%).
The only question appears to be whether Floyd has an actual majority or whether a runoff is necessary, but it looks like the IDiots have themselves another candidate. Today’s papers show that Floyd likely has at least the 50%+1 vote necessary to prevent a runoff.
The only question appears to be whether Floyd has an actual majority or whether a runoff is necessary, but it looks like the IDiots have themselves another candidate.
Several of the other SC papers are essnetially reporting the same thing - that it looks like Floyd has just enough votes to avoid a runoff.
I bet the folks at SC PIE are thrilled …
I like Henry Jordan’s idea that it’s the sin of pride that causes people to believe in evolution. I wonder what causes people to believe that humans are so well-designed that a Creator specially designed them and that the Universe is made for them? Quite the piece of blackwhite no?
So who won?
Re “I like Henry Jordan’s idea that it’s the sin of pride that causes people to believe in evolution.”
Yeah, where do they get the notion that people want to be related to other animals? I don’t see any particular reason to think that scientists were ever actively wanting to be related to other apes, primates, mammals, vertebrates, animals, eukaryotes, and the other domains.
Henry
so who won?
the creobots:
http://headlines.agapepress.org/arc[…]/152006b.asp
phht, yeah, right.
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