“Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution”
From the Wall Street Journal:
The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry. Texas is such a huge textbook market that many publishers write to the state’s standards, then market those books nationwide.
It’s ignorant acts like these that show just how lacking science education is in the United States. The very basic principle behind science is that observations from reality determine our conclusions. They do not come from unprovable, unfounded beliefs or faith. By allowing arguments from religion that have been destroyed time and time again by scientific facts and reason, we are telling students that facts mean nothing when you have a big enough wallet feeding your big delusions.
