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"This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government, because it does not come from government, it comes from the Creator of life." Audio here.
- President George W. Bush in signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Nov 5, 2003

Long-time SBOE member Dr. Don McLeroy of Bryan-College Station is appointed by Governor Rick Perry to head the Texas State Board of Education! Congratulations to Dr. McLeroy on a well-deserved honor.
Supporters of embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR) have been dealt blows as private investors bail out. It seems the investors are growing impatient with the distinct lack of progress and are putting their money in more productive endeavors. Meanwhile, adult stem cell research continues to find therapies and produces fruitful research.
Global warming supporters are rethinking the link between CO2 and warming, after researchers find that in past earth history, the warming periods precede slight increases in CO2 by 800 years! It seem the chicken little crowd has it "exactly backwards" as one researcher put it--the warming causes CO2 to rise, not the other way around.
Dr. Michael Behe's new book, The Edge of Evolution, posits what Darwinist mechanisms can and cannot accomplish! (hint: random evolution can't do much!) (Dr. Behe of Lehigh University is the author of "Darwin's Black Box", which is largely credited with igniting the modern "Intelligent Design" movement about 11 years ago.)
Answer's in Genesis' "Creation Museum" opens near Cinncinati. Reports from many camps, including some evolutionary ones who disagree with AiG on neary all issues, are complimentary and crowds have been far greater than expected this summer. See www.answersingenesis.org for more information.
A new "Explore Evolution" book has been released. This book gives a more balanced treatment of evolution theory, including both scientific strengths and weaknesses to the theory. See www.exploreevolution.com for more information or ordering.
"Texas Pledge" modified to include "one state underGod"! The new pledge reads: "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
New Texas SBOE members sworn in, including new members Ken Mercer, Cynthia Dunbar, and Rick Agosto. Congratulations and Welcome!
The Ouachita Parish School System has adopted a resolution on teacher academic freedom. In dealing with controversial issues such as global warming, human cloning, biological evolution, and others, teachers are expressly "permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories..." More information and the policy itself are located at:
http://opsb.net/downloads/forms/Ouachita_Parish_Science_Curriculum_Policy.pdf
Darwin vs. Design Conference in Dallas Texas April 13-14...Don't miss this one if you can possibly attend! Info here.
Science vs. Scientism on display in California (Chuck Colson article here and podcast here)--EXCELLENT!
Judge Jones (of Dover PA Intelligent Design case) copied the ACLU!
Back-to-school, with more resources than ever focused on the appalling, growing weaknesses of 19th century evolutionary theory. News details here.
Kansas State Board of Education vote August 1-newsletter with voters' guide here.
Stand Up for Science! New petition drive to support teachers rights to teach the controversy in Kansas and elsewhere. To sign the petition, go to www.standupforscience.org. Audio streams of related commercials airing on Kansas radio:
Click here to hear commercial #1
Click here to hear commercial #2
Fight dogmatic Darwinism in Kansas: The "Stand Up for Science" initiative launches to support teaching weaknesses of evolution in Kansas to combat the atheist-Darwinist dogma there. The site ( www.standupforscience.org ) includes a petition drive (not limited to Kansans) and other resources to set the record straight regarding the updated science standards in Kansas. The Darwinists are outraged, and are launching a nationwide (perhaps international) campaign to control Kansas elections August 1, 2006. The militant Darwin-only opposition cites well-known atheist/skeptical/agnostic anti-Christian websites supporting them. Please help Kansas where you can, including signing their online petition here.
Texas State Board of Education election update: The primary season included two "wins" for the side of truth and conservative values. Both Cynthia Dunbar (running for an open seat) and Ken Mercer (running against an entrenched incumbent) won their seats! Thanks for your help!
Opponent of teaching weaknesses of evolution admits to plagiarism on campaign website. In a radio program broadcast March 1, 2006 on the Adam McManus show, incumbent Texas SBOE member Dan Montgomery admitted to putting his byline on several articles written by others. However, he said it was no big deal and he's now corrected it. TBSE found that while he has now removed his byline, at least one article still contains an introductory paragraph claiming authorship. Other misrepresentations and outright deceptions in the radio broadcast were also noted by TBSE--full story here.
Hundreds of Doctoral Scientists Question Evolution Dogma: The number of scientists who publicly question Darwinism and encourage critical thinking on the issue has now topped 500. Given that these fully credentialed PhD scientists risk retributions at work for going public against the established dogma, this is particularly newsworthy. The list includes PhDs from MIT, Cambridge, The Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, Ohio State, and members of both the United States and Russian National Academy of Sciences. Download or view the list yourself at:
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=660
A member of the National Academy of Science (NAS), Dr. Phil Skell, has issued an "Open Letter" to the Kansas State Board of Education encouraging them to permit teaching critical evaluation of evolution. This is noteworthy not merely because membership to the NAS is one of the highest honors bestowed on scientists, but because the other side in the past has tauted that no one in the NAS agreed with criticizing evolution. Note that the NAS is, unlike either the general population or the general scientific community, over 90% atheist/agnostic in their worldview. Text of Dr. Skell's letter is located here or here.
Kansas, on the eve of improving its science curriculum standards to permit critical thinking about evolution, is hit with a boycott of evolutionists refusing to participate in a public hearing specifically to hear the pros and cons of critical thinking about evolution. It is unclear why the evolutionists, whose mantra is that 'there are no weaknesses', do not think they can defend their cherished 19th century notion of Darwin.
TBSE's Dr. Ide Trotter served as moderator of a debate held at Texas A&M University in College Station on Irreducible Complexity. Dr. Michael Behe of Lehigh University and Dr. Vincent Cassone of TAMU were the two primary speakers. An estimated 1500-2000 people attended the Veritas Forum event, sponsored in part by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Read the campus newspaper report of the debate here.
The New York Times runs an opinion editorial on intelligent design by Dr. Behe, biochemist at Lehigh University. Article here or reprint here (NYT may require free registration).
Time and Newsweek run articles on schools wanting to teach weaknesses of evolution and alternatives. Only the ACLU and the NCSE seem to object, as usual.
Kansas State Board of Education considers making biology more intelligent by encouraging students to actually follow the evidence "wherever it leads", (without advocating formal study of intelligent design theory). Report in the Kansas City Star here. (may require free registration to access.)
The Branding of a Heretic - The Wall Street Journal reports in their Friday, January 28, 2005 edition (print p. W11) that Richard Sternberg of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, who has two Ph.D.'s in biology, is being subjected to severe discrimination at work, since he dared to allow publication in a peer reviewed journal an article by Dr. Stephen Meyer on intelligent design. Such bigotry at a government funded institution, on purely religious grounds, should not be tolerated. While our troops and President Bush are doing all they can to spread freedom throughout the world, it seems that the militant Darwinian - Orwellian "thought police" are alive and well not just in America, but in Washington, D.C. itself!
WSJ Article here.
Stephen Meyer's article here.
An internet "blog" devoted to exposing media bias in the way evolution and intelligent design articles are presented, and more importantly, to getting the TRUTH out on issues of origins, is located at: www.evolutionnews.org
Close Minded PBS station KNME in Albuquerque, NM censors the scheduled and advertised broadcast of the documentary "Unlocking the Mystery of Life", which is for sale on the PBS website and has been shown in virtually all major markets of the U.S. on PBS affiliates nationwide. details here. (If you haven't seen it or it's companion video "Where Does the Evidence Lead" that is specifically edited for classroom use, please check it out here.)
Opened Mind of Former Atheist: Prominent atheist philosopher made the revolutionary decision to become a theist. Now-former atheist believes in a God due to the apparent irreducible complexity and origin of the information in DNA. World Magazine report here.
RIchland, Michigan censors "Of Pandas and People" from classroom. Orders reference books removed. Will they go to the school library or be burned?
Grantsburg, Wisconsin adopts policy modeled after Texas TEKS 3A - specifies teaching "strengths and weaknesses"!
ACLU challenges Pennsylvania school district for allowing questioning evolution dogma.
ACLU is afraid of a sticker saying evolution is a theory.
Plano, Texas school district is sued by conservative legal group for censoring a whole host of free speech items, many related to Christmas.

Special Section for Teachers: National Geographic "Was Darwin Wrong?"

This is one of the most biased, one-sided promotions of evolution in recent memory. However, they do point out on page 25 that only 0.1% of the presumed tree of life fossils have been found!

For rebuttals online, try:

Discovery Institute's Dr. Jonathan Wells here
ICR's Bill Hoesch here
AIG's Dr. Terry Mortenson here

Cobb County Georgia is sued by the ACLU for encouraging students to have "open minds"!
(details here)
Discovery Institute Press Releases: 1 2 3 4

Texas SBOE Defines Marriage In Accordance with State Law - rejects gender neutral "alternative" language! click here for details.

College Professor Announces Textbook Specific Errata Guides for CURRENT TEXTBOOKS (in classrooms now). Details here.

CLEAN SWEEP! - Conservatives Terri Leo, Gail Lowe, and TBSE testifier Barbara Cargill, all win their SBOE races by large vote margins! Thanks to all of the TBSE supporters who helped make this happen!

82% of Texans Support Teaching Both "Strengths AND Weaknesses" of Evolution...details here

Open Letter to the State Board of Education here
See what groups (Texas and National) are on our side!

Letter to Texas State Board of Eucation by Darrell Scott, (father of Columbine High School Victim Rachel Scott), of the organization Columbine Redemption here.

Supplemental material to assist students, teachers, and parents, tailored to CURRENT textbooks, here.

More Teacher resources coming soon!

TBSE Press Release (Nov 10) here. Get the real story!
Discovery Institute Press Release (Nov 7) here

Dallas Morning News Editorial Board November 5 editorial here. A "must read"!

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April 1, 2004 National Review Article by Dr. John West here.
Nov. 20 Interview: Dr. John West and Mrs. Sandy Rios
of Concerned Women for America here - GREAT!
Focus on the Family Nov 4 article here
October 31 "Scary Characters" article here
Columbine HS shooting connection here
Textbook Error: Haeckel's Embryos here
Textbook Error: Fossil Record Gaps here
Textbook Error: Darwin's Finches here