Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution

somanyrobots writes with this excerpt from the Dallas News: "In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be 'weaknesses' in the theory of evolution. Under the science curriculum standards recommended by a panel of science educators and tentatively adopted by the board, biology teachers and biology textbooks would no longer have to cover the 'strengths and weaknesses' of Charles Darwin's theory that man evolved from lower forms of life. Texas is particularly influential to textbook publishers because of the size of its market, so this could have a ripple effect on textbooks used in other states as well."

Comments

Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses

[Bill Dog]

TFA writer pats himself on the back too hard -- it's not a major defeat for this social conservative. Even tho I don't believe in evolution, I find what you said to be utterly, perfectly reasonable. Start the course with "BTW, we're going to talk about things this semester in science class as if they're proven fact. But remember, it doesn't work that way. Now, open your books to page 1 and let us begin."

Should give the retards equal time and expose them

[ColonelPanic]

Students, now that we have covered the neo-Darwinian synthesis of natural selection and modern genetics, we should give some time to a competing explanation put forward by many prominent opponents to science.

In this alternative theory, the earth and all its life forms were created at 9:00 am on October 23rd, exactly 6,012 years ago, just shortly before a talking snake tricked a mud-man's rib-wife with a magic fruit. This crime required the Creator to impregnate a teenager several thousand years later, and now if you don't ritually cannibalize his zombie son, you'll roast in a giant lava pit forever after you die. All of the fossils you may see were caused by a giant flood or were deliberately planted by an evil spirit to deceive you.

You will understand America much better when you accept the fact that many more of your fellow citizens prefer this second explanation to the first one.