New Science Standards in Texas

[jrosebud]

http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog/?p=910

Hopefully we'll finally get religion plucked from our science classes.  

(First Kansas, now Texas - I can't seem to get away from creationist craziness in the schools.)

[Squid]

I saw this first talked about on P.Z. Meyers' blog and so I wrote a blog about it myself and added some links to some online petitions from a couple of concerned organizations:

http://neurognosis.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/defending-science-in-texas/

[rlrose328]

Oh WOW!  Great blog and great video!  He was so incredibly elegant.  I'm so glad Dale included it.  (And as an aside, I loved his tshirt changes.   )  I'll be watching this issue with great interest.

[crocofish]

Here's an interesting article from the Dallas Observer about a survey sent to faculty member all around Texas who teach biological science in public and private universities.

Of the 1,019 faculty members to whom the surveys were sent, 464 responded -- and fewer than 1 percent checked off the box marked, “Modern evolutionary biology is mostly wrong. Life arose through multiple creation events by an intelligent designer, although evolution by natural selection played a limited role.”