Politics & Policy
February 11, 2014
Evolution of the Specious
The arguments against teaching evolution in schools have largely failed. Have they finally come to an end?
Evolution
Politics & Policy
September 18, 2013
Who’s Who Among the State Board Of Education Hearing
Like any political battle in Texas, the ongoing fight over the evolution in the state's science classes features colorful characters worth getting to know.
Business
January 21, 2013
Dr Pepper “Progress of Man” Parody Becomes Silly Facebook Controversy
There's another Dr Pepper boycott in the works, and this one has nothing to do with real cane sugar.
Arts & Entertainment
January 21, 2013
Don McLeroy Appears on ‘The Colbert Report’
The former Texas Board of Education chair talks creationism, textbooks, and whether man and dinosaurs lived contemporaneously on The Colbert Report.
January 21, 2013
‘The Revisionaries’ Explores the SBOE
The Revisionaries, a new documentary about the State Board of Education, received rave reviews after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
February 3, 2012
Texas’s Controversial Science Standards Are “Mediocre to Awful”
A recent report gives the state's science standards a ‘C,’ but the State Board of Education chairwoman, a science teacher, is still “pleased.”
Politics & Policy
August 19, 2011
Perry on evolution/creationism
Readers are no doubt aware that Perry was asked by a child in New Hampshire “how old the earth was.” Before Perry could respond, the boy’s mother urged him to ask about evolution. Perry responded, “Your mom is asking about evolution. You know, that’s a theory that’s out there;
Politics & Policy
February 17, 2010
Dispatches from the evolution wars
This is my transcript of a portion of a radio debate that took place in Bryan last week between State Board of Education candidates Don McLeroy, the incumbent, and Thomas Ratliff in the Republican primary race for SBOE district 9. The district runs north from the Bryan-College
Web Exclusive
December 1, 2008
Slow to Evolve
The reason so many Texans testified in favor of strong language supporting evolution in the TEKS is because they’re having to play defense and they’re losing.
News & Politics
November 1, 1982
The Dinosaur Darwin Missed
Side by side near a Texas river are dinosaur tracks and what appear to be the marks of a human foot—proof, in the creationist mind, that evolution is bunk.