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Steve Schafersman, Texas State Board of Education District 15
District 15 for the Texas State Board of Education covers 77 counties in Texas’s northern Panhandle. It’s oil (Midland), cotton, Texas prairie and small towns, and lots of schools, and some...
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They’re coming for the science textbooks, again; join me in speaking up
I get e-mail, sometimes from the Texas Freedom Network. In this case, I’m happy to share. You need to know this. Would you sign the petition? Click Here to Sign the Petition Dear Ed, I’m worried about...
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Twitter open thread: Noah’s flood
No, the evidence doesn’t point to a Noachic flood. Evidence contradicts the idea. Welcome, @crazy_stairz @EdDarrell @paulmc107 @StrangerGirl2 @HomunculusLoikm @LogicBobomb, and anyone else who wants...
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Texas, the eyes of Darwin are upon you
Graphic from Colin Purrington, in commemoration of the kickoff of hearings at the Texas State Board of Education on science textbooks, September 18, 2013 Colin Purrington Tweeted, “Thanks, @ncse for...
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Open thread: Polite explanations of evolution, for anyone who cares to ask.
A friend notes that he can’t seem to get good explanations of evolution from scientists or science-knowledgeable people, not without a great deal of condescension and snark against creationists. My...
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A sign of some apocalypse in Dinosaur, Colorado?
It’s an interesting town, Dinosaur, Colorado 81610. It’s on the south side of US Highway 40, a very short distance east of the Utah border. And it touches on the Colorado part of Dinosaur National...
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Blog carnivals? The Carnival of Evolution lives on!
Carnival of Evolution #67 is up at The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks. Carnival of Evolution, No. 67 — Wallace centenary edition Carnival of Evolution #67 at Genealogical World of...
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All those animals on the ark? I don’t think so
No, I didn’t watch Bill Nye dissect Ken Ham in the science vs. creationism debate. I share with many other science-loving people a conviction that “debating” creationists is wholly irrelevant, and...
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Cross seas: Nature, or design?
Here’s just exactly the sort of thing that happens in nature that drives creationists nuts. How could this happen without God personally working to confuse and/or delight the photographer? Not to...
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Why no one believes in evolution, why faith in creationism isn’t Christian...
I keep forgetting. Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub was born in 2006. That was three years after my first great forays into education policy in Texas, working to make sure science stayed in the science...
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