Re: I'm from Texas...and seeing this I want to crawl into a hole...

I have news for you, I have it on personal authority that most Creation
Scientists are going to hell.

On 3/21/09 7:21 AM, "Roy Griffin" <roygg9@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> God (so to speak) help us...this guy is Chairman of the Texas Board of
> Education!
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> McLeroy Endorses Idiotic Anti-Evolution Book
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> Posted on: March 20, 2009 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton
> To show you just how ridiculous Texas Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy
> is, take a look at this report from the Texas Freedom Network on a book he
> recently endorsed.
> Is that the sort of message Chairman Don McLeroy and his cohorts on the State
> Board of Education have in mind for Texas science classrooms if they succeed
> in their campaign to shoehorn "weaknesses" of evolution back into the science
> curriculum standards? That's certainly the message of a new book McLeroy is
> now endorsing.
> Dr. McLeroy - noting his position as board chair - recently wrote a glowing
> recommendation of Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Sciences' Sinister
> Scheme to Teach Our Children They're Descended from Reptiles by Robert Bowie
> Johnson, Jr. (The new book is self-published.)
> You can see McLeroy's glowing recommendation here.
> In the current culture war over science education and the teaching of
> evolution, Bob Johnson's Sowing Atheism provides a unique and insightful
> perspective. In critiquing the National Academy of Science's (NAS) missionary
> evolution tract--Science, Evolution and Creationism, 2008, he identifies their
> theft of true science by their intentional neglect of other valid scientific
> possibilities. Then, using NAS's own statements, he demonstrates that the
> great "process" of evolution--natural selection--is nothing more than a figure
> of speech. These chapters alone are worth the reading of this book.
> Next he shows how the NAS attempts to seduce the unwitting reader by providing
> scanty empirical evidence but presented with great intellectual bullying--both
> secular and religious. He actually embarrasses the NAS with a long list of
> their quotes where they make the obvious claim that evolutionists believe in
> evolution. He then shines light on the Clergy Letter Project, again showing
> the obvious--theistic evolutionists believe in evolution.
> Again, Sowing Atheism brings a unique perspective to an always interesting
> debate; advocates for both sides should find the book intriguing. The
> questions it raises are important; they deserve a hearing.
> Don McLeroy
> Chair, Texas State Board of Education
> 9277 Brookwater Circle
> College Station, Texas 77845
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