Science is hard. There are gaps in the science. Cells are complex. Science makes cells seem so confusing. God made cells.

Just like Texas leads the nation in teen pregnancies, so let them lead the nation in pure academic idiocy. I say this is it's own form of social darwinism. Over time, they will sink into their own pool of ignorance.

The (legal) hispanic population will soon overtake the demographics, making it a Democratic state, then they can return to the path of progressiveness. Until then, let them lead the other idiocracies into that same pool.

How about we ask those who oppose science to sign a pledge stating that they don't believe in it and that they will refrain from using any invention, discovery, idea, treatment, etc. that comes from science. They will no longer drive a car, fly in an airplane, take antibiotics for infection, allow surgery (except for amputation,perhaps), and toss their computers into the landfill. They can rely on their strapping young-earth creator to cure them, get them places, and do their thinking.

Science is for suckers, man. Can science make a teenage girl pregnant? Didn't think so!

..still screwing up life for the rest of us. It wasn't enough you sent a crew of criminals to DC for eight years...nope, now you want to make all our children even more ignorant than our failing public school system already does.

Great. Thanks Texas. Heckuva job.

Sometimes I wonder if it was a bad idea bringing Texas into the Union in the first place.

They have decided to invite a repeat of Kitzmiller v Dover, wasting further taxpayer money of re-arguing the same case that has been before the courts every few years and lost.

And when yet another rightwing judge noted for his Republican leanings tells them that Genesis is in fact, not science, and teaching it in science classes constitutes violating the establishment of religion clause in the first ammendment, you will get them protesting about "activist judges" while America's schools continue to fall apart due to the due to the schoolboard forcing people who actually care about their children's education to take these issues to court.

And of course, you will have the same religious lefties who make all of this possible by whining about "tolerance" telling us all how we shouldn't really judge religious people by the stupid people religion inspires.

I wonder what will happen to the Texas state university system and some of the more prestigious privates like Baylor as the pool of local applicants gets dumber? Will this mean that more and more applicants will come from out of state? And if so does it mean that costs will go up or down? That's really the only relevant question one needs to worry about.

BTW to the fool here who assumed that all Mexicans are democrats, you're wrong. Hispanics represent one of the fastest growing groups of Catholic evangelicals and other fervent religious people in the US.

Or at least complicated enough to give the ID people a gap to try to drive a wedge in.

There is a gap in the fossil record. There is enough evidence of evolution for us to reasonably conclude that this is how things happened, but not enough for us to prove it.

Evolution can't be disproven, because the evidence is too strong. But ID can't be disproven either, because it requires no proof - that's also why it isn't science, of course. Combine that situation with a bunch of people who really want to believe in creationism, and it becomes something of a Mexican standoff.

Of course, the ID people will never believe in evolution, even if we close the gaps in the fossil record and monkeys start talking and following Jesus. It will always be something. But they are smart enough to see their window for getting this stuff into our schools is closing, so this is likely not the last big push we'll see for this in the next couple of years.

How about the flaws in Christianity, can we teach that too?

Or the flaws in Relativity, do they have a replacement theory? Or the flaws in particle physics, what about that?

One thing that bothers me is that their religion admonishes them to be truthful, but they are some of the biggest liars on the planet. Clearly they don't even trust their own religion.

Should the flat earthers prevail in this vote it could end up being a good thing. In many parts of the country, including the majority of this nation who just cast off the people who champion backwards views such as this, the whole creationism crowd is looked upon as complete wackos, fighting battles that were decided a century ago. Voting for this could be seen as such an overreaching that it could completely unravel the stranglehold that hicks such as some on this board have on textbook content nationwide. There will be PLENTY of places - places with MORE (many more) people than live in Texas - where textbooks such as the ones envisioned will be soundly rejected. In fact, I could easily imagine such a huge backlash that any publisher who gets on this anti science bandwagon could very well find themselves with warehouses full of unsold books.

So... let these luddites have their 6000 year old earth and their "doubts" about Darwin.

But... cut Texas out of the union? As much as that would be a satisfying punishment to collectively inflict on the place that gave us the last eight years of hellish incompetence, one has to remember that Texas is (or was) also home to Lyle Lovett, Janice Joplin, Bob Wills, Billy Gibbons, Molly Ivins, John Hightower, Ann Richards, etc. .....

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And of course, you will have the same religious lefties who make all of this possible by whining about "tolerance" telling us all how we shouldn't really judge religious people by the stupid people religion inspires.

Where is the tolerance from "lefties" on the issue of bad text books? Most oppose religion-inspired books and say so.

Let's not condemn the whole state. There are plenty of people in Texas who do not support this nonsense. Just not enough.