How honest do you think the Texas Board of Education is behaving?
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(Reprinted from CFI newsletter)
Texas? New Science Curriculum: Win, Lose, or Draw?
By Clare Wuellner
On March 27th, the Texas State Board of Education approved the science curriculum. The good news was that the wording “strengths and weaknesses,” which required students be introduced to erroneous “evidence” that seemingly weakened the theory of evolution, was voted out of the science curriculum.
The bad news was that they made nine amendments that were just as unscientific as teaching “weaknesses” of theories, but that will hopefully not do as much damage. (For a complete breakdown of the amendments and an evaluation of their potential use and abuse, see Paul Murray’s “Cultural Noise “ blog entry for April 1st 2009.)
Because the damage these nine amendments will do depends on how textbook publishers respond and how the 2011 State Board of Education weilds its responsibility, both anti-science and pro-science folks see potential for a “win.”
Between now and January 2011:
* Texas will have a gubernatorial election (the governor appoints the SBOE chair);
* seven of the fifteen SBOE members will be up for re-election;
* Don McLeroy’s nomination to chairman of the SBOE will not be confirmed because the Senate is not likely to give the 2/3 majority vote required. This is wonderful news! BUT what is likely to happen now is that Gov. Perry will nominate one of the other young-earth creationists to be chair during the summer, when the Senate is not in session, thus circumventing the approval process. Bottom line: we don’t know who the new chair of the SBOE will be;
* there are at this writing seventeen bills introduced in the Texas Legislature that could have serious impact on the SBOE, the science curriculum, or both (an excellent resource for tracking these bills is at http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Bills2009);
* pro-science organizations, like CFI Austin, will be campaigning for the best possible interpretation of the new science curriculum standards in textbooks; and
* unfortunately anti-science organizations will be campaigning equally hard for the interpretation of the new science curriculum standards to be as pro-creationist as possible.
So, there you have it in a nutshell. There are too many variables for anyone to predict an outcome. For now, the battle rages on.
Clare Wuellner is the executive director of CFI/Austin
lmao McLeroy is my representative. He’s the one I had to petition to stop creation from becoming, *gag*, science. Who cares what happens in Texas? Everyone should. The textbooks in the united states classrooms are chosen here! Wake up, America!!!
Yes, Gee, the purpose of religion is truly over. People need to understand that this is a good thing! We are evolving!
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Meh, you barely notice it.
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Texas High School Student who believes in Evolution and Odin.
CHRIST should be taught under
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And the science gods are any better?
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It could be worse.
In Kansas they tried to actually redefine ’science’ to include ‘non-natural phenomena’.
Now that’s chutzpah.
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No. They are peddling Jesus in a lying and deceitful manner. The belief they espouse is pathetic and patently false superstition which supersedes the evidence and the informed evaluation of virtually all the scientists in the world
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Scary, are they not concerned about being manipulated as an organisation by these groups?
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they might as well include Alien adoption as part of the curriculum
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who the fuck cares about tex-ass?
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lmao McLeroy is my representative. He’s the one I had to petition to stop creation from becoming, *gag*, science. Who cares what happens in Texas? Everyone should. The textbooks in the united states classrooms are chosen here! Wake up, America!!!
Yes, Gee, the purpose of religion is truly over. People need to understand that this is a good thing! We are evolving!
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So CSI is against teaching all possible strengths and weaknesses regarding theories to students? "The bad news was that they made nine amendments that were just as unscientific as teaching “weaknesses” of theories" What exactly is bad about that, shouldn’t our students know it all?
What the heck are pro-science and anti-science organizations? lol the only ones who really care are little organizations like this one.
And btw, all of this is a moot point, it is doubtful Perry will be elected again after his major faux pas concerning the succession of Texas lol.
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EDIT: That first answer "jamie" I think it was, needs to seriously think about it, do we really want the government teaching our children religion of any kind? The separation of church and state is not to protect the state from the church but to protect religion from the state. I certainly don’t want the state teaching my child religion.
This is what it says now:
“In all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations so as to encourage critical thinking by the student.”
It doesn’t look like they are trying to "push a creationist agenda" to me. It looks like they are just trying to give the students the best education they can get.
http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=6980
Next time get all of the facts before you go making false claims.
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The Bible – The only good book!
Proverbs 3:3-6 (New International Version)
If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New King James Version)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Psalm 118:8 (New King James Version)
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Here’s a simple prayer you can say:
(If you say this and mean it in your heart you will be saved and understand why we believe what we do.)
"Dear God I know I’m a sinner, I know I am not where I want to be, and I want your forgiveness! I believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the price for my sins.
Please wash me clean from all sin, shame, and guilt, come into my life Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. I ask this in your name Jesus.
Amen!"
Religion should be kept away from education..Acutally the purpose of Religion is over…
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Your question about whether it is a "Good Offering" for education can be answered in a way that it is good for what the creator of the New Science Curriculum consider as "good". Of course that will always be biased to where their belief is leaning more and who weighs heavily on which their interests will be protected.
Let us hope CFI /Austin will have the chance to weight more.
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