14 DAY TRIAL // The Texas State Board of Education has just recently come under increased pressure from science groups, which urge the authority to drop plans of introducing a new amendment in the state's learning programs, to question the proven principle that life descended from the same common ancestor. Because key officials in the state are religious fanatics, they seek to disguise some basic scientific facts in “religious clothes” and to question finds that disagree with the Bible, to the point where such ludicrous amendments are pushed through.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), together with some of the most important members of the Texas scientific community, have sent a letter to the TSBE, saying that the learning authority would do well “to reject amendments to the state's draft science standards that would undermine sound science teaching.” Otherwise, the only ones that will suffer will be the children, who will grow up learning how to disregard scientific facts for religious fantasies.
The Board should seek “to reject amendments to the state's draft science standards that would undermine sound science teaching,” the letter also stresses, adding that the amendment only serves to “confuse students. The scientific consensus is that evolution is the backbone of modern biology and many other fields of science, underlying advances in areas such as agriculture and medicine,” the scientists' letter states the obvious.
It's unfortunate that, at this point in time, sound-to-the-head scientists still have to battle uphill against archaic mentalities. And what's worse is that extremist Christians only seek to solidify their legacy by indoctrinating their children ever since they are little into questioning what they term “mainstream” or “sinful” knowledge. Even former president George W. Bush said that his belief in God was not “incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution.” And he is a fierce Republican who has spent most of his life in Texas.