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As Texas goes, so goes the nation (on textbooks)

 
 
Reply Thu 9 Apr, 2009 07:00 pm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2226009/posts?page=1
http://www.discovery.org/a/10071
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/As-Texas-goes-so-goes-the-nation-on-textbooks-42658097.html

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As Texas goes, so goes the nation on textbooks

By Dr. Charles Garner and David Klinghoffer, OpEd Contributors
- | 4/8/09 11:13 PM

Texas last week was the scene of a stirring illustration of democracy at work as the State Board of Education (SBOE) set itself the task of revising standards for science education, debating fundamental controversies in biology, paleontology and chemistry. The radioactive topic of evolution was the center of attention.
When the dust settled, the resulting vote left Texas with the most advanced science standards on evolution of any state in the country. As you can imagine, many “experts” and activists on the Darwinian side are outraged. The citizens had failed to listen obediently! They had dared to think for themselves.... [EXCERPT]
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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 9 Apr, 2009 08:30 pm
@gungasnake,
Why not move there snakey. This "sufficiency" clause will backfire on the McElroy douche bags. You heard it here first.

The war on science is over in the other 49PS Caifornia also is a state that buys its books like Texass.


The "enlighrened" true believers have their law so tightly written that they wont even mention Creationism until it slips out by some fanatic teacher untrained in science.

I predict that this law will last 2 years before its tested in court (if the law doesnt mention the obvious fraud behind the law itself, itll jhave to be tested by its track record in the schools).
If the law is to remain honest (riiiight) then the sufficiency and insufficiency of worldviews that dont embrace natural selection will also have to be compared because the law doesnt single out evolution, it only cites it as example.


PS Freerepublic, really snakey.

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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 9 Apr, 2009 08:32 pm
@gungasnake,
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When the dust settled, the resulting vote left Texas with the most advanced science standards on evolution of any state in the country


With the exception of all the others
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NickFun
 
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Reply Thu 9 Apr, 2009 11:53 pm
Gunga never ceases to amuse me with his drivel! Texans are already not known as the sharpest knives in the drawer. Lets see how this unfolds!
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Fri 10 Apr, 2009 07:36 am
WARNING!
This textbook contains a chapter describing the brain-dead ideological doctrine known as the "Theory of Evolution". Actual belief in this doctrine has been shown to cause IQ reduction in laboratory animals and yuppies.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Fri 10 Apr, 2009 07:37 am
This entire brouhaha will have almost no effect on what happens in the classroom.

Some punk wanting to irritate the teacher will use this rule to disrupt regular lessons; otherwise, the teachers will continue to follow the chapters in the textbook.

And the textbook will simply go into how a "scientific theory" differs from a conjecture.
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