Tagged: Climate change

The president of the Kentucky Board of Education says new academic standards for science education in public schools include material on evolution that has been in place since 2006.

David Karem says Kentucky worked with 26 other states on the scientific standards, which were approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education on a 9-0 vote.

Karem told WKU Public Radio Thursday that the evolution teachings will more closely align Kentucky's curriculum with entry-level college requirements. And he says it's in no way an effort to step on anybody's religious beliefs.

"I think the point is that there is no intent in the scientific standards that are being adopted that go into a person's religious beliefs or interfere with them in any way," said Karem.

The President of Kentuckians for Science Education, Robert Bevins, said climate change and evolution may be politically controversial for some people, but they aren't scientifically controversial.

Dr. Brian Fagan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will give a "Reach Week" lecture on the WKU campus on March 21st. Fagan is the author of the best selling book, "The Great Warming:Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations." He has done extensive research on the ways civilization has adapted to climate change in the past.  His lecture in Van Meter Auditorium will be free and open to the public.   Dr. Fagan talks with Dan Modlin..........