{"id":989,"date":"2009-04-06T06:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T10:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=989"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:48:12","slug":"more-texas-ripples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"More Texas ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Charles Garner and David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute talk about what happened in Texas in an opinion column<\/a>, and even mention Florida antievolution legislation, taking it way out of context; Florida’s proposed bill was not in response to what was happening in Texas, but rather a continuation of the fight from 2008. Uninformed or twisting the truth? You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Charles Garner and David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute talk about what happened in Texas in an opinion column, and even mention Florida antievolution legislation, taking it way out of context; Florida’s proposed bill was not in … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-fX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":970,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=970","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":0},"title":"Ripples from Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Poynter provides a newspaper roundup of how what's happening in Texas concerning evolution education can affect the country. The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum that challenges the theory of evolution. Testimony on the proposal begins Wednesday. Because Texas has such a huge\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=970#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":747,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=747","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":1},"title":"A mess in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you haven't heard, Texas science education is taking a beating. 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Texas science faculty (95 percent) want only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Other states' news"","block_context":{"text":"Other states' news","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=28"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":599,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=599","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":4},"title":"Texas trouble","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In the continuing saga of \"and you thought we had it bad,\" I present to you this NY Times article about evolution woes in Texas. It looks like more board of education members there are vocal about the issue than our folks were here in Florida. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStrengths and weaknesses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 44 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 44 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=599#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":961,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=961","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":5},"title":"Meanwhile, in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't been following what's been going on in Texas, you need to. The Texas Freedom Network will get you up to date, and the National Center for Science Education will sum things up for you. 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