If Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Is Questioned on Evolution, Here's What She Should Say

We should expect confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's Cabinet appointments to include scaremongering about science education. This week's fake news about a "petition" to VP-elect Mike Pence, demanding a moratorium on instruction about evolution, gives a hint of what may be to come. Atheist activists jumped on the petition as evidence of what the semi-mythic "Christian Right" has in store for the next four years. The petition's creator, though, characterized it as "tongue-in-cheek."

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