In Arizona, Laurie Roberts writes on the appointment of Joseph Kezele to a working group "charged with reviewing and editing the state's proposed new state science standards on evolution."
Here is a bit of instruction from a guy Superintendent Diane Douglas tapped to help review Arizona’s standards on how to teach evolution in science class:
The earth is just 6,000 years old and dinosaurs were present on Noah’s Ark. But only the young ones. The adult ones were too big to fit, don’t you know.
"Plenty of space on the Ark for dinosaurs – no problem," Joseph Kezele explained to Phoenix New Times' Joseph Flaherty. [...]
Kezele is a biology teacher at Arizona Christian University. He also is president of the Arizona Origin Science Association and, as Flaherty puts it, “a staunch believer in the idea that enough scientific evidence exists to back up the biblical story of creation.”
The appointment was a move by outgoing superintendent Diane Johnson to elevate creationism in state classrooms. Johnson failed to secure renomination in last month's Republican primary, finishing third in the five-way race.
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Donald Trump went on the Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show where he answered questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin, because what's the damn point of anything anymore.
At last week's vapid excuse for a foreign policy forum Trump told Matt Lauer that he praises the Russian leader because "if he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him." This indeed seems an accurate distillation of Donald Trump's worldview, in which the worth of every individual he meets is measured only in accordance with how flattering that person can be toward Donald J. Trump. Also an accurate distillation of Donald Trump's worldview: going on a different television program to say the opposite.
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