Recently the Evangelical wing of the Texas Board of Education lost its 20 year ascendency in having the “weaknesses” of evolution given equal time in Texas science classes.
After losing in an 8 to 7 vote the losers passed an amendment – straight from the creationist Discovery Institute which recently moved from California to Texas – to include the same twaddle using different words.
Rather than the old “weakness” argument it will now be “the flaws of universal descent” given equal time. Universal descent is of course the very basis of evolution. Removing it means that some ONE created each and every thing separately. Which of course is twaddle.
The Houston Chronicle wrote an editorial blasting the Texas Education Board for “undermining scientific evidence with a particular religious belief.” It went on to say Texas students should not “be sidetracked and confused by unscientific twaddle posing as honest inquiry.” Houston Chronicle Fossils
To some this may seem a rather mundane editorial, but down here in Dumbutt this is dangerous territory for a large Republican Newspaper. Letters to the editor, internet forums and the overall angst spell out strongly and specifically just how mud dumb stupid Texans are.
Remember this issue of forcing public school teachers to teach the flaw of “universal descent” will also then be written into the Texas science text books which will be used for the next 10 years. Also keep in mind that the market for these text books is so large in Texas that the publishers then distribute the same books to most other states. At least in the Confederate states…
The other day I typed “evolution polls” into Google. I found entire websites dedicated to these polls. Many are hiding their bias and if found myself confused in information overload. So may polls so many different questions, so many different people being asked it cannot be easily quantified. I suggest doing it yourself to get the gist of it in your own mind. But I will tell you straight up that after you do this you will come away far more depressed than when you started.
I must also say that his twaddle is not so much Texan as American.
Recent polls show 80% of Americans and about 60% of science teachers want some form of creationism given equal time in public school science classes. A few years ago it was 65% Americans and 54% of teachers. I also found that it seems that the entire home schooling phenomenon is about this one issue.
Yesterday the Royal Academy of Sciences in England got all discombobulated when it found that 31% of Britons and 19% of teachers wanted equal time for whatever creationism is in vogue.
The problem is insurmountable. The very small of mind cannot deny creationism because to do so denies God and their hope of everlasting life in the firmament with 72 virgins. So women get boy virgins I wonder?
We cannot take those 72 virgins away from these people, so the only option is to keep this twaddle out of government and especially out of our schools where children tend to believe whatever crazyass twaddle they are told.
More on Kick!
Texas Board of Education Accepts Evolution
The Face of the Texas Taliban, Cynthia Dunbar
Intelligent Design For Dummies
Intelligent Design For Morons & Imbeciles