{"id":666,"date":"2008-07-26T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=666"},"modified":"2008-08-11T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T10:30:55","slug":"tomfoolery-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Tomfoolery in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Dentist” Don McLeroy, and the Texas Board of Education is gearing up to return science education in Texas back to the 19th century.This is the latest efforts by religious conservatives to discredit TOE after efforts to incorporate\u00c2\u00a0creationism into the science standards have repeatedly failed. Lessons in “the weaknesses of evolution” could be coming to Texas public schools as soon as March 2009<\/p>\n

“I don’t think the evidence supports evolution”said Mc Leroy a self described creationist,” I’ve been reading a lot and there are three major problems with evolution” First,gaps in the fossil record and no transitional fossils. Second,there has not been enough time on earth for evolution\u00c2\u00a0to have happen.Thirdly,the incredible complexity of living cells proves divine design.(all sound familier ?)<\/p>\n

This is a \u00c2\u00a0battle we could be facing again in Florida, so give your support to the Texas Freedom Network<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Dentist” Don McLeroy, and the Texas Board of Education is gearing up to return science education in Texas back to the 19th century.This is the latest efforts by religious conservatives to discredit TOE after efforts to incorporate\u00c2\u00a0creationism into the science … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-aK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":791,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=791","url_meta":{"origin":666,"position":0},"title":"Texas scientists strike back","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent survey takes the pulse of the Texas higher education folks to see where evolution stands. 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