Fundamentalist-Led Texas History Standards Get ‘D’ from Conservative Think Tank
“Biblical influences on America’s founding are exaggerated, if not invented.”
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Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church
The church, in its ignorance of and hostility to evolution, is passing up one of its greatest opportunities to apprehend the very God it claims to represent. This irony is due to a terrible case of what may be called “small-god-ism” and is, unfortunately, encouraged by much popular theology. This theology makes claims about scripture and church practice that reduce God to a cheerleader, or a cosmic vending machine, or some domesticated and pale image of our own confused selves.
Read MoreAttacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year
What will be creationists’ new strategies of denial?
Read More‘Dog-Cat’ Incumbent Reelected to Texas Board of Education
Up to new board to review educational materials for new curriculum.
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Texas Approves Anti-Muslim Resolution for Textbooks
Board members’ claims of pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias don’t hold water.
Read MoreTexas Board of Education Sets Sights on Islam
Proposed Resolution Warns Against Islam in Textbooks
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The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment
It seems to have been meant to be—and not in that predestination way. After endless months of testimony and debate, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Don McLeroy, passed…
Read MoreCourt Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email
Texas Education Agency’s director of science was curriculum battle’s first victim.
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Art(ful) History in Texas
The most vocal advocate of sweeping conservative changes to Texas’ American History curriculum is happy about the changes, but tells RD that it’s only a part of the agenda.
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