# Thank goodness: Texas putting evolution back in the curriculum

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**Created:** [June 11, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826 "2010-06-11T18:59:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826/1 "2010-06-11T18:59:05Z")

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[http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=texas-vote-moves-evolution-to-the-t-2009-03-27](http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=texas-vote-moves-evolution-to-the-t-2009-03-27)

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> The Texas Board of Education voted today by a 13-to-2 margin to change controversial language in the state’s curriculum, making it harder for creationism to creep into public classrooms.
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> Today’s vote strikes the old language and replaces it with instruction to “analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using empirical evidence, logical reasoning and experimental and observational testing,” according to Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a pro-evolution non–profit based on Oakland, Calif

Finally, some sense seems to be returning to the Texas Board of Education!

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826/2 "2010-06-11T19:19:44Z")

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Is this the new board? I hadn’t realized that the election just held had resulted in the triumph of members with a clue to this extent.

Now, are they going to let Thomas Jefferson back into the history curriculum?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826/3 "2010-06-11T19:22:01Z")

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That article is from March of 2009.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826/4 "2010-06-11T19:30:11Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> That article is from March of 2009.

:smack:

Oh.  
Uh..  
Nevermind…

(That’s what I get for getting my news from Facebook Friends.)

shit.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-goodness-texas-putting-evolution-back-in-the-curriculum/542826/5 "2010-06-11T19:39:30Z")

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Closing at request of OP due to lack of relevance. 😉

**Ellen Cherry  
Merciful Moderator**