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If you live in Texas and have children, you should think about filing this post under 'Why I should have my head examined." The rest of you should kiss the first archaeologist you see.
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported the following: The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation. The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry.
Texas school board chairman Don McLeroy, who is a dentist by the way, is the man behind this new curriculum. He leads a group of seven social conservatives on the 15-member board, and they are opposed by a bipartisan group of seven that includes three Republicans who support teaching evolution with caveats.
Dr. McLeroy believes that God created the earth less than 10,000 years ago. If the new curriculum passes, he says he will insist that high-school biology textbooks point out specific aspects of the fossil record that, in his view, undermine the theory that all life on Earth is descended from primitive scraps of genetic material that first emerged in the primordial muck about 3.9 billion years ago.
He also wants the texts to make the case that individual cells are far too complex to have evolved by chance mutation and natural selection, an argument popular with those who believe an intelligent designer created the universe.
"We need to be honest with the kids," McLeroy told the Journal (with a straight face, no doubt). Continue reading: Evolution, Ann Margrock and Me
