Texas creationists lose!

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Uh, as long as this shit keeps coming up.

It's rather important that our kids learn science in science class...
...and not the proclamations of Jesus-drunk culture warriors and flat-Earth bible thumpers.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/texas-conservatives-demand-science-textbooks-incorporate-creation-science-based-biblical-pri

Creationists advising the Texas Education Agency, the state’s board of education, are no longer even trying to hide the fact that they want to insert pseudo-scientific material grounded in religious beliefs into public school science textbooks. Terrence Stutz of the Dallas Morning News reports that evolution detractors appointed to the review boards are urging the textbook publishers to ignore the Supreme Court (along with science) and push Creationism, or be rejected.

One of the panelists reviewing the biology textbooks, a nutritionist, said that “creation science based on biblical principles should be incorporated into every biology book that is up for adoption

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20130909-religious-conservatives-criticize-proposed-science-books-for-texas-schools.ece

Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed high school biology textbooks for not including arguments against Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The review panels include several creationists. They urge the State Board of Education to reject the books unless publishers include more disclaimers on key concepts of evolution.

[font size=1]As State Board of Education chairwoman, Gail Lowe nominated nearly a third of the state's 28 biology textbook reviewers. A social conservative and creationist, Lowe was defeated in her re-election bid last year.[/font]



it sounds to me like your top priority as an education-concerned Texan should be getting these pinheads off the biology textbook review board, not criticizing people on DU who report about the situation.