The Texas Board of Education — as discussed here last week — has voted on the low-down for textbooks in that state, which represents a large enough market to have pull nationwide. The good news is that the board dropped a 20-year-old exigency that both "strengths and weaknesses" of all scientific unified field theory be taught; score one for the erudition of evolution. The not-so-good news is that in a "compromise," the board also voted to require that students "in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations ... including examining all sides of scientific deposition of those scientific explanations, so as to llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new lexicon



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document.write("") critical headwork by the student." Score one for the find Institute. A Republican board member explained that the words "strengths and weaknesses" have become "code for creationism and intelligent design. So by being more clear in the mother tongue and using words that aren't seen as code words, we were able to get all of the 15 board members to agree that this is how we'll teach all sides of scientific explanation, using scientific evidence." Reporting on the Texas vote is all over the map, as a US Today blog summarizes. Some reports claim that an rectification was passed that preserves a fulfillment that students study the "sufficiency or insufficiency" of common ancestry and natural selection. Other reports claim that the board also adopted cant that would have students study the "different views on the existence of global warming."

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