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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Aug 3, 2019, 10:35 AM Aug 2019

Florida's New Board of Education Chairman is an Evolution Denier, and lies about it [View all]

because he claims he's not inserting his personal faith into the state system, but years ago he admitted he was:

Florida’s State Board of Education recently announced a new chairman: Andy Tuck.
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But when he was on that local school board in 2008, he http://www2.highlandstoday.com:80/content/2008/jan/25/board-opposes-evolution-being-taught-fact/" target="_blank">opposed the teaching of evolution as a “fact” in the state’s new science standards.

School Board Vice Chairman Andy Tuck said Thursday, “as a person of faith, I strongly oppose any study of evolution as fact at all. I’m purely in favor of it staying a theory and only a theory.

“I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.”

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/08/03/floridas-new-board-of-education-chairman-is-an-evolution-denier/

But now he's got a higher state profile, he tries to deny it:

Then in 2014 Tuck was appointed the state board of education. Reporters recalled his earlier stance on evolution and so decided to follow up with him now that he was at the state level. This is what he said:

“I’m not an evangelical right-winger,” he told me. “I’m not trying to get religion in schools.”

[…]

Tuck said his problem is that scientists can’t say for certain how the universe began.

“I guess the thing I struggle with is you’re teaching evolution to fifth-graders and you get done and one says, ‘Where did it start?’” he said. “And you say what?”

http://www.flascience.org/?p=3494
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