Texas is home to so many tech companies that these companies should be shouting to the rooftops that such an anti-science campaign will have nothing but detrimental effects to the long term competitive advantage that TX holds versus other places in the US or worldwide.

You can’t have a credible science curriculum if you’re pushing creationism into science classrooms and denying that the science of evolution is sound. These people are behind the Vatican, which also supports the science of evolution.

If you don’t have an educated populace that understands the critical concepts of science - how can you create the next generation of thinkers, scientists, researchers, and technologists who develop the new technologies that will drive the global marketplace.

No, what Perry is continuing to do is push a religious agenda into the science classroom where it does not belong. You want creationism in classrooms, put it in comparative religion classes where it belongs - not in a science classroom*.

*If you want to put it in a science classroom as a way of showing how creationism/ID isn’t a testable theory, isn’t science, and requires leaps of faith rather than sound scientific principle, I’m for that.