News about the battle in Texas between creationists and supporters of sound science in public schools has now reached the pages of Daily Kos. The progressive mega-blog takes aim at Don McLeroy, a Bryan dentist and creationist who serves as the Texas State Board of Education‘s chairman: An exciting, recent fossil find suggest Texas was a hotbed of […]
Is understanding of evolution “vital” to the understanding of biology? No. That nugget of nonsense comes from Don McLeroy, a Bryan dentist who serves as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. McLeroy was writing about the debate over teaching evolution in a column for the Waco Tribune-Herald this weekend. McLeroy says he and other creationists don’t […]
The anti-evolution Discovery Institute is accusing the Texas Freedom Network of going on a hypocritical “rant.” Last week TFN criticized the Texas State Board of Education‘s inclusion of three creationists on a six-member panel that will review science curriculum standards for the state’s public schools. All three are supporters of “intelligent design”/creationism, which Discovery promotes as […]
This year the far-right faction that controls the Texas State Board of Education has been even more contemptuous of teachers and the law than in the past. Now it appears that in addition to bullying teachers, David Bradley, R-Beaumont Buna, may have a history of threatening at least one fellow board member. Some of the […]
Texas State Board of Education Puts Strident Anti-Evolution Critics on Science Standards Review Panel Two Authored Anti-Evolution Textbook, Presenting Serious Conflicts of Interest FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2008 AUSTIN – Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller today sharply criticized the inclusion of three strident evolution opponents, including two authors of an anti-evolution textbook, on a […]
