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Victory for evolution in Texas

By NCSE July 22, 2011.

Print: National Center for Science Education (NCSE)

Sit down. Brace yourself:
The Texas Board of Education has just made a UNANIMOUS (8-0) decision to deny creationist-backed biology class supplemental material in favor of materials provided by mainstream publishers. The real victory is the fact that these publishers - you guessed it - explain the results of biological science without drowning those results in the pre-established dogmas of the region (i.e.,most of America). Evolution has just planted its feet firmly in the Lone Star State.