Texas State Board of Education Controversy: Newly Adopted Science Curriculum Standards – Part 4

Texas science curriculum standards: the controversy continued

The old Texas science curriculum standards contained anti-evolution code words. See Part 3. Texas State Board of Education voted to remove the offensive code words, but evolutionists were not entirely happy with the new language.

The new science standards required students, in all fields of science, to “analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and experimental and observational testing, including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student.”

Did you find the new offensive code words? “Examining all sides of scientific evidence.” According to proponents of evolution, there is only one side to evolution and these new code words will now open the classroom to non-science.

Evolutionists claim that science has proven the theory; it is fact. And it needs to be taught as fact. Anything else is junk. Students must not be taught anything that may, in anyway, introduce doubt concerning the theory of evolution.

But a newly released Zogby Poll showed that a large majority of the public feel that students should have the opportunity to learn the evidence for and against the theory of evolution. This was not good news for the proponents of evolution.

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