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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-20-09 04:06 PM
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If you fail an IQ test in Texas, do they automatically put you in the legislature?

Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 20, 2009 12:30 PM, by PZ Myers

I'm trying figure out how this insane bill could even get a hearing. State Representative Leo Berman (R, of course) was peeved that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board ruled that the Institute for Creation Research would not be allowed to grant degrees. So, he came up with an amazingly stupid idea: pass a law that would allow private, non-profit education institutions to grant degrees without the board's permission. Which, if you think about it, is actually kind of brilliant in the sense that it's hard to imagine a worse solution.

If it were to pass, though, I'd like to move to Texas for a few months, open a free daycare, and issue doctoral degrees to every toddler who can go a day without pooping his pants.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/if_you_fail_an_iq_test_in_texa.php

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