(OUCH): "I think in America we should have freedom to teach our children whatever it is we believe" [View all]

[kpete]

Rubio on the age of the earth:

There is no scientific debate on the age of the earth. I mean,
it’s established pretty definitively, it’s at least 4.5 billion years
old.

I just think in America we should have the freedom to teach our children whatever it is we believe.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/12/05/1284791/marco-rubio-the-earth-is-at-least-45-billion-years-old/

"Prior to 2008 the word ‘evolution’ wasn’t even included in Florida’s science education standards. In 2007, when a much needed revision of the State’s education standards began to lift the veil from the eyes of Florida’s students, Rubio was there as Speaker of the House pleading for inclusion of intelligent design as part of the science curriculum. Rubio fought against the teaching of evolution claiming that it infringed on Academic Freedom. Rubio argued for Academic Freedom in the same sense that it is propped by the Discovery Institute; the version of teaching that allows creationism to be placed on equal ground with biology, astrology on common footing with astronomy, and the version that grants alchemy the scientific relevancy of chemistry.

"When interviewed about the teaching of evolution, Cuban-American Rubio compared the teaching of evolution to the tactics used by Fidel Castro’s communist party to undermine families and the church - a means of controlling the masses."
http://ecographica.blogspot.com/2010/03/marco-rubio-creationist-in-closet.html