The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has released its annual report on the religious right in Texas. You can find the 2009 report here. This year’s report — The 81st Legislature: Change at the Capitol? — focuses on Texas lawmakers who promote the culture wars in Austin. The report also includes a legislative history of key issues (private school […]
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‘Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolution’
The header above is from the subject line of a wild-eyed screed sent circulating around the Internets this past weekend by Donna Garner, a former language arts teacher in Central Texas. Social conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education seem to think Ms. Garner is some kind of curriculum guru. (Never mind that most other folks see […]
‘Analyzing and Evaluating’ Don McLeroy
Have you wondered how Texas State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy persuaded fellow board members last month to add an amendment weakening proposed science standards dealing with evolution? Well, here’s an interesting Web page put together by an enterprising fellow: “Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine.” The site looks at the many quotes from reputable sources […]
Not about Religion?
Creationists on the Texas State Board of Education have repeatedly insisted that their attempts to dumb down the science curriculum on evolution have nothing to do with promoting their religious beliefs. But often their own words and actions betray them. At the end of the Jan. 21 public hearing on the science standards, board members were […]
Summer Seminars in Pseudoscience
During last week’s public hearing on proposed science standards, evolution deniers on the Texas State Board of Education insisted that they had no intention of promoting “intelligent design”/creationism in public schools. Stephen Meyer, co-founder of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute in Seattle, echoed the claims of the board’s anti-science faction. They just want kids to learn […]
