Ethics

McLeroy Still Spouting Creationist Talking Points

By Ed Brayton

Though the Texas state legislature rejected his renomination as chairman of the Texas Board of Education, Don McLeroy is still spouting the creationist talking points. TFN has the details of a recent op-ed he wrote. He argued, for example:

Students will study evidence for common ancestry in the fossil record.

Specifically, they will "analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data of sudden appearance, stasis and sequential nature of groups in the fossil record."

The sequential pattern of fossils can be considered evidence for evolution, but the other patterns -- sudden appearance and stasis (staying the same) -- can be used to question evolution.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).