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For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution
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."
instead lets allow bigots to teach our kids that they have been created overnight from clay somewhere in middle east.
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Seeing as how decisions made in Texas can affect the content of textbooks nationwide, the reaction is entirely in proportion. Already Texas has tried to shift historical education in favor of teabagger fantasy. The line must be drawn immediately lest we corrupt the minds of a generation.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Your point is valid - there are reasonable people living here in Texas. Ironically, most of them live in the state capitol, but the willfully ignorant, bible-thumping zealots are a noisy lot. So noisy that they have managed to earn the entire state a reputation that is, perhaps, undeserved. Furthermore, one can not choose the race, or color, I.Q., or even the state in which one is born, but choosing to be stupid, and worse, deliberately inflicting that stupidity on school children as a part of their science curriculum, is a an embarrassment that the entire fucking state should have to deal with until they grow up an learn that it is just plain wrong to bring your religion into law and government.