“I was fairly confident that we would prevail,” said Rob Dillon, a College of Charleston biology professor and president of South Carolinians for Science Education. “I was very gratified by the support for rigorous science education that came from the State Board of Education.”

Dillon has been driving from Charleston to Columbia every time the standards were up for discussion to speak against what he called part of an effort to sneak creationism into public schools.

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