Ethics

Texas BOE Appoints Creationists

By Ed Brayton

The fight over new science standards in Texas is going to get really ugly just as the fight over science textbooks did a few years ago. The Texas State Board of Education, which is dominated by some really extreme religious righters like Terri Leo, has appointed a 6 member committee to review and write new science standards and two of them are from the Discovery Institute - Stephen Meyer and Ralph Seelke.

Seelke showed up in Michigan a couple years ago to testify on a pro-ID "arguments against evolution" bill. He began by claiming that the bill had nothing to do with ID and then spent the rest of his testimony repeating every single ID argument. If Scott Minnich is a poor man's Michael Behe, Ralph Seelke is a poor man's Scott Minnich.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).