For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution

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[h=2]For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution[/h] Posted by timothy on Sunday July 24, @04:50PM
from the evolving-attitude dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Texas Board of Education has unanimously come down on the side of evolution. In an 8-0 vote, the board today approved scientifically accurate high school biology textbook supplements from established mainstream publishers — and did not approve the creationist-backed supplements from International Databases, LLC."

Nice to see a victory for science over religious based pseudo-science.

Now if Georgia would catch up.

Nothing wrong with Creationalism.
Unless you aren't a part of a Judeo-Christian faith.

If I want my kids to have -religious- instruction, I'll send them to Sunday School. Hell, that's where I spent a lot of Sundays. Got a few awards n such too, even got an autographed prayer book from the bishop for being tops in my class.

But in a -public- school, I expect all things taught as sciences to be just that, sciences.
Things that follow the scientific method, the accepted scientific method, used for centuries.
Not systems that start with conclusions, remove all conflicting data until you have refined what is left to prove a predetermined result.
 

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For Science, for Science,
We sing our proud refrain!
For Science, for Science,
'Tis Wisdom's earthly fane!

(Sung to the tune of the Boston College fight song)
 

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For Science, for Science,
We sing our proud refrain!
For Science, for Science,
'Tis Wisdom's earthly fane!

(Sung to the tune of the Boston College fight song)
I don't know that song, but it works with "Our House" (is our castle and our keep).:)
 

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Some folks might know the Dropkick Murphys version :D

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Has coverage of the Georgia battle.

As one person said on YT
If we allow the Biblical account we have to allow the Quaranic account, the Hindu account, the Buddhist account, the Shintoist account, the Egyptian account, the Viking account....
How would they feel if "the first man and woman were licked out of a slat block by a divine bull" was taught as "science"?
 
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This post is a throwback to the old evolution-v-creationism debates of The Study of old. Call me nostalgiac but I kinda miss those days. The topics didn't seem so....recycled.
 

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