Creationists Suing Texas Education Board
The Institute for Creation Research (really!?) is suing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board because the board will not accept their application to issue a master’s degree in science education. So now they’re suing in federal court.
Really, just how many things do they want to be wrong at? These are young earth creationists who have a literal interpretation belief in the Bible — meaning they think the world is actually 6,000 years old and was actually built in six 24 hour days.
And now they want to be able to issue science degrees that would allow their “graduates” to take jobs in Texas schools teaching science. I’m sorry, but when you have no basic foundation of the fundamentals of science, you are not qualified to teach it.
This would be like someone who actually believes that Field of Dreams happened teaching the history of baseball, only teaching what they were told by that movie.
Money quote from the original article:
Among the institute’s arguments in the lawsuit: “The monopolistic realities of the science education market in Texas (and in America generally) would limit creationist learners to science education opportunities from evolutionist graduate schools.”
It says the institute is “the only graduate school which specializes in creationism-informed science education.”
Here’s a tip for you — when you are the only “school” in the country offering a specific course, and every other school on the face of the Earth is telling you that you are 100 percent wrong about your science, there is a reason that you are the only one teaching it.
And for the record, graduate schools aren’t “evolutionist,” they’re scientific. Go ahead and take your creation theories to any of these “evolutionist” schools and put them through the scientific process. Perhaps engaging in actual science will allow you to see what science is and how it works. Only when you are willing to learn the facts are you able to understand them. Having a fairy tale and fighting anyone who dares tell you that you have no proof of anything is no way to conduct science.
I can take people going to church and being religious, but when it comes to trying to force people to believe in something that is so scientifically unsound is downright criminal.
Why is it that every creationist vs. school argument takes place in Texas? Really, at this point, that state deserves the population that it is trying to grow.
Also not to be ignored:
“Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, has introduced a bill that would, in effect, exempt the institute from state rules that degree-granting universities must follow.”
Yeah, there’s a guy who deserves to be reelected (note: sarcasm). How do these people have jobs? Introducing a bill that would exempt an institute that teaches proven falsehoods from state rules for issuing degrees? Why not offer medical licenses to witch doctors while you’re at it — there’s about as much real science in each.
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I love the whole idea of a debate between “creation” on one side and “evolution” on the other.
I mean one is dealing with the start of life and the other is discussing the diversity and change in life. The whole idea that these words are opposites to each other is completely ridiculous. If creationist really want to debate something on a equal level then debate abiogenisis. AND use science to back op their claims otherwise debating them is just giving fools a false sense that their point is actually creditable.