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Sure enough, just like clockwork, Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has appointed yet another activist religious fanatic to head the State Board of Education. The rumor going around was that he’d pick Cynthia Dunbar, who considers public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion,” but apparently that was a little much ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Science, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry, Gail Lowe, David Barton, Wallbuilders
When the Texas legislature kicked out creationist dentist Don McLeroy as head of the state’s Board of Education, I wrote: It’s almost certain that Perry will select another creationist; he did, after all, pick McLeroy not once but twice, even after McLeroy’s Biblical literalist views were notorious. There’s no ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Dentist Don McLeroy, the young earth creationist appointed to head the Texas State Board of Education twice by Republican Governor Rick Perry, has been rejected by the Texas Senate. I see this as very good news, but the Discovery Institute (who pushed hard to get their anti-evolution “academic freedom” language ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Like a creationist zombie film franchise that returns for sequel after bad sequel, dentist Don McLeroy — the appallingly ignorant Biblical literalist appointed twice by Texas Governor Rick Perry to be in charge of the education of Texan children — is back in the running. Reports of his dismissal were ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Republican Governor Rick Perry appointed Don McLeroy twice as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, in a sustained effort to sneak the teaching of creationism into public schools, but tonight the confirmation of the creationist dentist is reportedly dead in the water. The confirmation of State Board ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
LGF lizard Joel W. Walker (nickname “spaceman”) is running a campaign for the local School Board of College Station, TX, home of creationist dentist Don McLeroy, on a pro-science platform. He writes: LGF played a critical role in focusing my attention on our state’s curriculum battle. I hope you’ll ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Creationist dentist Don McLeroy, appointed twice to the Texas State Board of Education by Governor Rick Perry, is on the hot seat this week, and he is blatantly lying about promoting creationism in Texas public schools. AUSTIN – State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy vigorously denied Wednesday that ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), who appointed a raving creationist dentist to head the Texas Board of Education (twice), came out this week with a populist grandstand play intended to capitalize on the tea party demonstrations, hinting that Texas might secede from the United States. Unfortunately for Rick Perry, 75% ...
An excellent article about the creationist insanity that reigns over the Texas State Board of Education, by Lauri Lebo: Evolution Challenged in “Textbook” Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation. Ken Mercer says evolution is disproved by the absence of any transitional fossil forms between dogs and cats ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
After the ridiculous debacle in the Texas State Board of Education, in which creationists on the board (including young earth creationist chairman Don McLeroy, appointed twice by Republican governor Rick Perry) managed to insert several absurd anti-science amendments into the public school science curriculum, some Texas legislators are fed up ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
A new bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives will require meetings of the Board of Education to be recorded in audio and video, broadcast over the Internet, and archived for reference—an excellent idea that will expose the anti-science agenda of Republican chairman Don McLeroy (appointed by Republican governor ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
Christopher Hitchens makes excellent points about the Texas Board of Education and its young earth creationist chairman Don McLeroy, who apparently won’t be satisfied until the whole world is laughing at his state: Hitchens: Why Texas Is Right on Teaching Evolution. I find myself somewhat drawn in by the ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
The Texas Board of Education hearings on science curriculum have now concluded, and while the pro-science side did get some of the worst anti-evolution stuff out of the standards, the creationists on the board also managed to pass several amendments that will allow them to pressure textbook authors into including ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
In a vote this morning, the Texas State Board of Education deadlocked on a motion to restore anti-evolution language in the state’s science curriculum: Split vote upholds Texas education board ruling to ax evolution ‘strengths and weaknesses’ rule. AUSTIN – A last-ditch effort by social conservatives to require that ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
The creationists at the Discovery Institute are pushing hard to get their agenda adopted by the Texas Board of Education; this press release was just sent to my email address, and it’s a textbook example of the distorted turnspeak they use to promote their pseudo-scientific nonsense. Note that they’re attempting ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
As the Texas State Board of Education prepares to vote on the curriculum promoted by the infamous Discovery Institute and a board stacked with young earth creationists, more than 50 scientific societies have signed a letter calling on the BOE to Teach Evolution Right! A Message to the Texas ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
It’s astounding that this is happening in 2009, but the Texas State Board of Education is actually considering passing a curriculum that will teach creationism in public school science classes. And Republican Governor Rick Perry has stacked the board with young earth creationists and pure idiots, including at least two ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy, Rick Perry
This Wednesday, March 25, the Texas State Board of Education will hold three days of meetings leading to a final vote on a new science curriculum designed by the anti-evolution propagandists at the Discovery Institute, in league with far-right fundamentalists. The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Simon has a report on ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy
We’ve had several posts about the chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, Don McLeroy, a dentist and young earth creationist who is doing his best to drag science education in Texas back into the Dark Ages, with help from the deceptive propagandists at the Discovery Institute. In an ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Don McLeroy