{"id":791,"date":"2008-11-18T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=791"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:50:42","slug":"texas-scientists-strike-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Texas scientists strike back"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent survey takes the pulse of the Texas higher education folks to see where evolution stands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The TFN Education Fund’s press release summarizes five key findings from the survey: “1. Texas scientists (97.7 percent) overwhelmingly reject ‘intelligent design’ as valid science. 2. Texas science faculty (95 percent) want only evolution taught in science classrooms. 3. Scientists reject teaching the so-called ‘weaknesses’ of evolution, with 94 percent saying that those arguments are not valid scientific objections to evolution. 4. Science faculty believe that emphasizing ‘weaknesses’ of evolution would substantially harm students’ college readiness (79.6 percent) and ability to compete for 21st-century jobs (72 percent). 5. Scientists (91 percent) strongly believe that support for evolution is compatible with religious faith.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In case you didn’t know, Texas public education officials are trying to stack the deck in favor of “alternative theories” in their state science standards now under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent survey takes the pulse of the Texas higher education folks to see where evolution stands. The TFN Education Fund’s press release summarizes five key findings from the survey: “1. Texas scientists (97.7 percent) overwhelmingly reject ‘intelligent design’ as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-cL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=873","url_meta":{"origin":791,"position":0},"title":"What’s happening in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of Florida newspapers ran stories this morning about the fight over evolution instruction in Texas. 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