Creationist Picked As Trump's Education Secretary [View all]

[Coyotl]

No longer fresh news, but a good read. Here's the gist:

Betsy DeVos Picked As President-Elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary

....... Two weeks ago, bets were on Dr Ben Carson to be picked, a highly qualified neurosurgeon who simultaneously believed the Earth was no older than 10,000 years old. He also once said the Biblical figure Joseph built the Egyptian pyramids to store grain. As you can imagine, the scientific community was pretty stressed about the idea of this guy setting education policy. ............

DeVos ... has never professionally worked in the public education system.

She grew up as a member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America and was educated at Calvin College, the educational institution of the same church.

This is a protestant denomination that believes that “all scientific theories be subject to Scripture and the confessions.” It also claims that “humanity is created in the image of God; all theorizing that minimizes this fact and all theories of evolution that deny the creative activity of God are rejected.”