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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScientists Plead to Education Board "Not to Let Texas Once Again Become a National Embarrassment"
http://www.alternet.org/belief/scientists-plead-education-board-not-let-texas-once-again-become-national-embarrassmentDozens of scientists spoke out against creationist biology textbooks at the Texas State Board of Education's public hearing in Austin, pleading for the state not to continue its anti-science stance.
I ask you not to let Texas once again become a national embarrassment, said Ron Wetheringon, Anthropology professor at Southern Methodist University.
Most of the debate centered on evolution coverage in high school biology books and whether students should be able to question Charles Darwins basic biology theories, Dallas News reported. Social and religious conservatives on the board have fought for years for textbooks which teach all sides of evolution, watering down evolutionary science to make room for creationism many even questioning the validity of teaching climate change.
Former board chair and Youth Earth Creationist Don McLeroy, said it was important to support biblical teachings in whatever decision they make. What we see in the world around us supports what the Bible says but what we see in these books supports what the Bible says too, he said.
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Scientists Plead to Education Board "Not to Let Texas Once Again Become a National Embarrassment" (Original Post)
xchrom
Sep 2013
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LostOne4Ever
(9,286 posts)1. Teach science in the science room
And teach religion during church, sunday school, at a private religious school, or at home.
Public school is supposed to be secular and teach real science, not religious mumbo jumbo pseudo-science to indoctrinate other peoples kids to one groups religious beliefs!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)2. Too late.
Texass is now and has always been a "National Embarrassment."
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)5. Hear! Hear!
Too right!
llmart
(15,534 posts)3. That ship has already sailed....
n/t
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)4. Please. Secede.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)7. I still don't get it:
California has more population, so why does Texass get to set the standard for text books?
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)8. fucking christfascists...
sakabatou
(42,141 posts)9. Because Kitzmiller vs. Dover never happened according to them.