Starting this summer, the state education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and decide whether the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution should be taught. The benign-sounding phrase, some argue, is a reasonable effort at balance. But critics say it is a new strategy taking shape across the nation to undermine the teaching of evolution, . . .
Evolutionists want to limit even the teaching of "evolution onlyism" to the even more restrictive "evolution [positive evidence only] onlyism".
But critics say it is a new strategy taking shape across the nation to undermine the teaching of evolution, a way for students to hear religious objections under the heading of scientific discourse.
And of course they label any criticism as "religious objections" (despite the fact that such objections can even be found documented in even the "mainstream" science literature).
Views like these not only make biology teachers nervous, they also alarm those who have a stake in the state’s reputation for scientific exploration. “Serious students will not come to study in our universities if Texas is labeled scientifically backward,” said Dr. Dan Foster, former chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
And the evolutionists even claim that universities (and students, and the states, etc. etc.) will suffer permanent damage if evolution [positive evidence only] onlyism is not strictly adhered to.
