Texans have been doing a lot of things right lately. The newest happy result: bills in the Texas legislature to prop up the Institute for Creation Research and to add creationist language to their science standards failed.
So there's a bit more hope for Texas: Don McLeroy is out as Chairman of the State Board of Education, the creationist "strengths and weaknesses" language is not in the standards, and the ICR is still not certified to award phony graduate degrees in science education.
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