Should taxpayer dollars be going to schools
that teach creationism instead of evolution?
That's the provocative question science
education activist Zack Kopplin has asked
in interviews with Bill Moyers, Bill Maher
and others, and on a website that shows his
research into state programs that fund cre-
ationist schools. Appearing on that website:
Bradenton's Family Life Community School.
Kopplin is a Louisiana native who, in 2010,
as a high school senior, began organizing an
effort to repeal the Pelican State's Science
Education Act, which allows public school
science teachers to introduce critiques of
evolution and climate change into the class-
room. "Everyone who looked at this law knew
it was just a back door to sneak creationism
into public school science classes," Kopplin
told Moyers last year.
Kopplin's mission to reverse the Louisiana
Science Education Act, although still ongo-
ing, has broadened into a wide critique of
channels by which public education funds are
being directed toward schools that question
the validity of evolution. Kopplin eventu-
ally started a website, Say No to Creationist
Domenichino's 1626 work, The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, hangs in the National Gallery in Washington,
D.C. Image from Wikimedia Commons
SHOULD TAXPAYER DOLLARS BE GOING TO SCHOOLS THAT DO NOT
TEACH EVOLUTION? ONE ACTIVIST SAYS NO
DEBATE CLASS
By Cooper Levey-Baker
Associate Editor
