Texas School Board Votes on the "Weaknesses of Evolution Theory"

The Texas Board of Education scrapped a 20-year-old requirement that public school students discuss the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution. However, the Board said that sciences should be scrutinized.

The rules may affect textbooks and teaching standards in Texas for up to ten years.

Some reports are saying that this is a setback for any critique of evolution theory; others are saying that the "scrutiny and analysis" provisions open the door to creationism teaching. The Texas Freedom Network may have explained the ruling the best: "The State Board of Education pretty much slammed the door on strengths and weaknesses, but then went around and opened all the windows in the house."

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One Response to “Texas School Board Votes on the "Weaknesses of Evolution Theory"”

1. Dakota O'Leary says:

   March 30, 2009 at 1:16 pm

   This so doesn't surprise me. I think the entire illiterate and psychologically stupid South ought to just have a mass textbook burning and offer the Bible as the only instruction book. That's what they want anyway. It can double as a science text, a literature text, a mathematics text (counting up all the generations as Ussher did to find out how old the earth is), a philosophy text, a social studies text,and a history text. Since the Bible is all things to all people, then their theological students (which would include all high school students throughout the South) can go to college and proceed to sink the science and mathematics and literacy rate in this country to single digits. Better yet, can the South just secede and leave the rest of us alone?

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