Biological Warfare: Battles Under Way In Texas And Louisiana Over Science Education

[Adsos Letter]

Source: The Wall of Separation
April 29th, 2011
By Rob Boston

It looks like Texas is due for another round of fussing and fighting over creationism in public schools.

The state Board of Education continues to be dominated by Religious Right zealots who refuse to accept modern science and seek to teach religiously based concepts in biology classes. (They also reject accepted history. Remember, these are the people who hired “Christian nation” propagandist David Barton to help rewrite their social studies standards.)

Our friends at the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) have just sounded the alarm. A New Mexico-based outfit called International Databases has submitted a proposal to supply Texas schools with materials during the 2011-12 year. The group, according to an analysis by TFN and the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), promotes a litany of creationist canards.

“International Databases’ materials are not only laced with creationist arguments,” said NCSE’s Joshua Rosenau, “they are also remarkably shoddy, teeming with misspellings, typographical errors, and mistaken claims of fact.”

Link: http://blog.au.org/2011/04/29/biological-warfare-battles-under-way-in-texas-and-louisiana-over-science-education/
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[fascisthunter]

1. there should be a federal law to prevent religions from forcing their POV on every tax payer's kids

this is sick... and these same right wing religious fanatics point their creepy fingers at Muslims, and Sharia Law.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. There's a Supreme Ct decision against teaching creationism.

The Dover, Delaware school district.
This was litigated long ago.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Time to send another check to AU, I guess.

Sigh.

[Ezlivin]

4. It's not which book is more valid, it's which one is older!