Religious conservatives on the Texas state textbook review panel have targeted for eliminationhigh school biology textbooks that don’t include robust refutations of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
The panel, which includes several creationists, is urging the State Board of Education to reject any textbook that does not issue what it calls “disclaimers” on key concepts in evolutionary theory.
“I understand the National Academy of Science’s strong support of the theory of evolution,” said Texas A&M University nutritionist Karen Beathard. “At the same time, this is a theory. As an educator, parent and grandparent, I feel very firmly that creation science based on Biblical principles should be incorporated into every biology book that is up for adoption.”This is really going to help Texans compete in a global economy entering the Information Age in which knowledge workers will dominate.
The president of Texas Freedom Network, Kathy Miller, worries that the decisions of reviewers like Beathard will turn Texas into a “laughingstock”
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Texas textbook review panel: Put more ‘creation science based on Biblical principles’ in biology books
Scott Kaufman
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And the world is 5000 years old, too.
Let's be fair. There are Christians who acknowledge that the Earth is billions of years old - such as this guy who is a devout Christian and has a Phd in Astrophysics: www.reasons.org
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