Ethics

YEC's Attack Earth Science Standards in Texas

By Ed Brayton

It isn't just evolution under attack in Texas. My friend Steve Schafersman of Texas Citizens for Science, who is a member of the committee writing the standards for a new Earth and Space Sciences course in Texas public schools, notes that the creationist members of the Texas BOE have also placed young earth creationists on that committee. Here's his description of the standards the committee has written for that course:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).