{"id":2817,"date":"2008-06-25T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/25\/evolution-fight-in-texas-schoo\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T10:37:00","slug":"evolution-fight-in-texas-schoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/evolution-fight-in-texas-schoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Fight in Texas School Board Expected Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, in fact.Don McLeroy, dentist and chair of the Texas School board (a state-wide elected body) is a creationist.  Of evolution, he says &#8220;I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s true or it&#8217;s ever happened.&#8221;The 15 member board is stocked with seven creationists.  It could have been worse, but the outcome of recent elections was slightly favorable.  The governor of Texas is a creationist. Hell, most Texans are creationists.The most likely creationist effort will be to insert a &#8220;strengths and weaknesses&#8221; clause &#8230; an academic freedom provision, into the language.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishtimes-sj.com\/news\/2008\/0627\/columns\/008.html\">Here<\/a> is a current PDG essay on the situation by Joyce Anderson writing for the Jewish Times.<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/academic_freedom_bills_be_alar.php\">Here is a recent post<\/a> on the academic freedom issue, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=118&#038;Itemid=32\">here is Mike and me talking about it on the radio.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, in fact.Don McLeroy, dentist and chair of the Texas School board (a state-wide elected body) is a creationist. Of evolution, he says &#8220;I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s true or it&#8217;s ever happened.&#8221;The 15 member board is stocked with seven creationists. It could have been worse, but the outcome of recent elections was slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/evolution-fight-in-texas-schoo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolution Fight in Texas School Board Expected Shortly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Jr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}