Texas lists towards creationism
Creationism, the religious doctrine which insidiously claims to have something to do with science, has gotten a little closer to being taught across the US.
The Texas board of education has decided to include the following language in their review of new textbooks - due for 2012:
textbooks must "analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data on sudden appearance and stasis and the sequential groups in the fossil record."
This is one of the main claims against evolution: because we have a very incomplete fossil record, there is no evidence on how certain organisms "jumped" from one form to another. Hence, it must have been done by god. This makes about as much sense as buying your groceries from a French arms dealer in Sierra Leone.
The sad part is because any textbook has to be bought by Texas and California in order to be profitable, this could end up changing the wording of textbooks across the country to make it sound like there was some actual basis to creationism's criticisms of evolution.
"Creation Science - The bastard offspring of scientific ignorance and religious arrogance."
The worst part is this: almost half US HS bio teachers think that God guided the development of mankind (I suppose you could get away with this by saying they meant it "in a spiritual sense," but that is a big stretch) and 16% are "young earth creationists," or "religious drivel swallowing idiots."
The Texas board of education has decided to include the following language in their review of new textbooks - due for 2012:
textbooks must "analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data on sudden appearance and stasis and the sequential groups in the fossil record."
This is one of the main claims against evolution: because we have a very incomplete fossil record, there is no evidence on how certain organisms "jumped" from one form to another. Hence, it must have been done by god. This makes about as much sense as buying your groceries from a French arms dealer in Sierra Leone.
The sad part is because any textbook has to be bought by Texas and California in order to be profitable, this could end up changing the wording of textbooks across the country to make it sound like there was some actual basis to creationism's criticisms of evolution.
"Creation Science - The bastard offspring of scientific ignorance and religious arrogance."
The worst part is this: almost half US HS bio teachers think that God guided the development of mankind (I suppose you could get away with this by saying they meant it "in a spiritual sense," but that is a big stretch) and 16% are "young earth creationists," or "religious drivel swallowing idiots."
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