Posted on 11/05/2003 3:48:08 PM PST by yonif
The question over what high school students should learn about the origin of man has sparked debate across the state as Thursday and Friday's textbook adoption has neared.
Eleven publishers have already been selected for the Board to review, and the Board decides at the end of this week which books conform to the state's TEKS curriculum and which do not. To conform to the TEKS curriculum, books must include some sort of analysis of widely-held evolution theory, and the analysis sometimes includes criticism of the theory.
This has been a source of contention for Texas Citizens for Science, the Texas Freedom Network and other groups who call the insertion of analysis of evolutionary theory "censorship."
"Religion and science have been touchy subjects now for three quarters of a century in the educational system of America. That's not gonna stop. That's not gonna go away. And this is just the latest round of it," said Baylor Professor of Church-State Studies, Dr. Barry Hankins.
With the final decision Friday, this chapter in the religion versus science debate will come to an end.
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