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Texas: Scientists weigh in at education board on curriculum

By ADF Alliance Alert

Austin American-Statesman: "In January, the board voted to move away from that language but approved standards requiring students to study the "sufficiency or insufficiency" of evolutionary theory. The board also approved other changes that qualify statements about evolution and the Earth's creation. Some board members have said they want the standards to require a more critical approach to the teaching of evolution, saying that the theory that species evolved from a common ancestry lacks the empirical data required to be taught without discussion of any insufficiencies. "The board's decision is very simple: Are you for science or censorship? Are you for scientific progress or a ban on critical discussion?" said Jonathan Saenz, director of legislative affairs at Free Market Foundation, a Plano-based conservative lobbying group."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).