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For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution

Posted by timothy on from the evolving-attitude dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Texas Board of Education has unanimously come down on the side of evolution. In an 8-0 vote, the board today approved scientifically accurate high school biology textbook supplements from established mainstream publishers — and did not approve the creationist-backed supplements from International Databases, LLC."

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  1. Have to share this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBmhM0R2A0

    1. Re:Have to share this by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh ffs, it's swallowing my markup too.

      http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=jNGGNomLx_c

      It's evolving!

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  2. Texas board sides with Science? by DJ+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe there is a God.

  3. Common sense by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently they had an outbreak of common sense in Texas

    1. Re:Common sense by macs4all · · Score: 4, Funny

      US still need to work a lot. 51% of americans do not believe in evolution.

      Wow! That correlates quite nicely with the statistical probability that 51% of Americans are below average intelligence.

      Jus' sayin'...

  4. Re:Proof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine replacing texans with women

    I've imagined it and I've got to say, I like the idea. Not sure it's terribly practical though.

  5. Re:Have to share this - holy crap! mod parent up by Halo1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had to shut it off after the fifth one though.... incredibly depressing to watch.

    Others made a great antidote for that.

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  6. Re:Have to share this - holy crap! mod parent up by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try living here.

    What? In a Miss USA pagent?

    I'd try it at least for a little while. Until my wife found out, anyway....

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