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."

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Hi Texas

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses

[Anonymous Coward]

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[tannhaus]

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Re:Fracking Halleluja

[PalmerEldritch42]

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Re:Fracking Halleluja

[Anonymous Coward]

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[TaoPhoenix]

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