As a part of their campaign to undermine science education in the public schools, Christian fundamentalists frequently promote a book titled Of Pandas and People. These “intelligent design” proponents, creationists by another name, consistently try to induce state agencies and local school districts to adopt Pandas as a “supplemental text” for use in biology courses, [...]
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Darwin Totally Messing With Texas
Score one for rational thought! Kind of…
Yesterday the critical thinking faction of the Texas State Board of Education defeated the efforts of their religious idealogue colleagues to ensure the state’s schoolchildren would never be instructed in any scientific principles that contradict their deeply-held fairy stories of creation. Because, you know, science equals alchemy, which was [...]
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