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

Won't someone please think of the children?

[solder_fox]

Seriously, think of the children. The teenagers, rather. Whenever I hear this debate roar its head, that seems like the first place to go. It's not like a high school freshman is going to be scarred for life by hearing two sides of an argument. "These people believe this for this reason. These other people believe this for this other reason."

Their heads don't explode. It's okay. It may even *gasp* make them think about opposing ideas. They've done it before, since when they wanted a cookie and their parents didn't want them to have the cookie.

If we spent the time we spend on the evolution debate on education instead, we'd be a lot better off.

Re:Fracking Halleluja

[Killjoy_NL]

Heh I believe that there is something beyond our understanding and that a lot of people name it God or Allah or whatever.
If he/she/it/they/whatever created us, I find it more believable that he/she/it/they/whatever started with the Big Bang.
So ironic your thought may be, it's possible it's not far off ;)