Ex-School Trustee ‘Misspoke’ on Evolution
Former School Board Member Advocated Creationism on TV. Oops!
A former school board member who denied saying creationism should be taught alongside evolution in high school biology classes changed his story Thursday after being confronted in court with TV news footage of him making such comments.
William Buckingham explained that he “misspoke” during the TV interview.
Buckingham’s testimony came in the fifth week of testimony in a lawsuit filed by eight families who are challenging the Dover Area School District’s policy that students hear a statement about intelligent design in biology classes.
Earlier in Thursday’s court session, Buckingham claimed that he had been misquoted in stories from two newspapers that reported he advocated the teaching of creationism to counterbalance the biology textbook’s material on evolution.
But the plaintiffs’ lawyers confronted Buckingham with a 2004 interview he gave to a news crew from WPMT-TV in York.
“It’s OK to teach Darwin,” he said in the interview, “but you have to balance it with something else, such as creationism.”Asked to explain in court, Buckingham said that he felt “ambushed” by the camera crew as he walked to his car.
“I had it in my mind to make sure not to talk about creationism. I had it on my mind. I was like a deer in the headlights. I misspoke,” he said.
Like the old joke: “How do tell when a Creationist is lying? … He moves his lips.”
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