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发帖数: 9567 | 1 The Texas Board of Education voted unanimously to approve mainstream middle
school curriculum materials on Friday in a move seen as a victory for
proponents of teaching evolution in public schools.
Conservatives had complained the materials up for approval did not
adequately address "alternatives to evolution" such as creationism or
intelligent design as a theory of how life began.
The board also voted to reject any inclusion of materials submitted by a New
Mexico company, International Databases, which claimed Darwin's Theory of
Evolution was not proven and that life on earth was the result of '
intelligent causes.'
"These two votes represent a definitive victory for science and the students
of Texas, and a complete defeat of the far-right's two-year campaign to
dumb down instruction on evolution in Texas schools," said Ryan Valentine,
deputy director of the Texas Freedom Network, a liberal group that counters
attempts by evangelical conservatives to affect public policy.
In 2009 in a move that grabbed headlines across the country, a more
conservative Texas State Board of Education approved standards encouraging
debate over the veracity of evolution science.
The board had not voted on science educational materials since the 2009
decision. Supplemental materials were being considered on Friday rather than
entirely new textbooks due to budget cuts approved this year by the Texas
legislature.
The Texas board, which includes evangelical Christians, had been seen as the
best opportunity for supporters of Biblical-based theories of creation to
get their point of view represented in public school curriculum.
David Bradley, a leader of the board's conservatives, was not pleased with
the decision to allow Education Commissioner Robert Scott, whose proposals
included the teaching only mainstream science, to decide how to resolve
several "errors" in educational materials identified by evolution opponents.
"So we're going to kick the can down the road, and we're just going to
delegate that responsibility and give it to the commissioner," he said.
The vote followed several hours of emotional testimony on Thursday in which
science teachers from around the state pleaded with the board not to require
them to teach what they saw as non-scientific theories in their classrooms.
Intelligent design and creationism are theories that life on earth was
created essentially the way it is described in the Bible's Book of Genesis -
not by evolution, but by a 'creative intelligence' generally considered to
be the Christian God.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-creationism-texas- | G*M
发帖数: 6042 | | i*****t
发帖数: 24265 | | w*********r
发帖数: 3382 | 4 no, they absolutely agree with each other
women were fvcking evolved from men's ribs
initially all women looked like a curled dick but as time evolved they
started to grow arms, legs，etc..
there was one time women's breasts were mistakenly thought to be the
counterpart of men's testicles but later recognized as the milk producing
trumpet
you got it numb nuts?
【在 i*****t 的大作中提到】
: 进化论与科学和有神论矛盾么？
| E*****m
发帖数: 25615 | 5 好久不見, 還是那麼憤怒?
消消氣, 這機器人是反基臥底的。
【在 w*********r 的大作中提到】
: no, they absolutely agree with each other
: women were fvcking evolved from men's ribs
: initially all women looked like a curled dick but as time evolved they
: started to grow arms, legs，etc..
: there was one time women's breasts were mistakenly thought to be the
: counterpart of men's testicles but later recognized as the milk producing
: trumpet
: you got it numb nuts?
| w*********r
发帖数: 3382 | 6 yep, they just never stopped pissing me off
and long time my friend
【在 E*****m 的大作中提到】
: 好久不見, 還是那麼憤怒?
: 消消氣, 這機器人是反基臥底的。
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