As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation on Textbooks (Evos "furious"!)

Texas last week was the scene of a stirring illustration of democracy at work as the State Board of Education (SBOE) set itself the task of revising standards for science education, debating fundamental controversies in biology, paleontology and chemistry. The radioactive topic of evolution was the center of attention.

When the dust settled, the resulting vote left Texas with the most advanced science standards on evolution of any state in the country. As you can imagine, many “experts” and activists on the Darwinian side are outraged...

Personally, I believe public education has been conservatives biggest misstep and the core reason why we are where we are today.
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I absolutely agree!

The anti-Papists of the 19th century foolishly thought that government schools would always be Protestant in their worldview. Silly them!

Any government powerful enough to push Protestantism on Catholic children and taxpayers is powerful enough to push atheistic, secular humanist Marxism on 20th and 21st century children.

The entire concept of government schooling is a flawed socialist idea from the beginning. It's very goal ( from its inception) was to turn the American citizen into a non-thinking, compliant sheeple!

Conservatives wrongly believe that government schools can be reformed. They can't because they are a flawed and socialistic idea.

And...While wasting tons of time and energy attempting to reform the unredeemable, conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) have failed to set up a private system of tuition free, conservative private schools. They have also failed in making any serious attempt to close down government schooling. SHAME ON THEM.

Yes, I am shouting. I am exasperated with STUPID conservatives. Marxism is our nation's **most** serious threat. Schools are the Marxists **most** important weapon, and conservatives are doing NOTHING USEFUL!

Chuckling.

I’ve been reading the outrage for the last week as well. The interesting part is that the reports of said outrage almost all seem to be entirely quote free from the outraged parties.

The article accompanying this thread, for example, quotes not a single outraged ‘Darwinist’, simply posits that the outrage exists.

I think the most outraged quote I read, and no, I cannot link to it, is from someone saying that they were ‘disappointed’ that the school board decided as they did. Quite an expression of outrage. Not.

“high school students are specifically required to “analyze and evaluate” evidence on evolution-related topics including the fossil record, natural selection as an evolutionary mechanism, the complexity of the cell, and the common ancestry of humans and animals.”

Seems that this will lead to presenting MORE evidence for evolution than schools have been doing before. As I remember, most schools barely touch on evolution. Now they will be required to put together the evidence and present it to the class.

The the Darwinists are up in arms for what reason again? What part of it is it that they don’t like? The analysis, evaluation, and critiquing? Or the logical reasoning? Or the critical thinking?

All of the above, being confrontred by God and losing control.

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