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Wenger’s red herrings?

‘The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that you can’t teach creationism as science in public school classrooms, so the new strategy is kind of death to evolution of a thousand cuts,’ said Kathy Miller, president of Texas Freedom Network, which organized the event.

‘What you have is folks appointed to the official review teams who have an ideological perspective and they’re recommending debunked arguments to kind of water down the teaching of evolution and climate change in our books,’ said Miller.

‘Presenting Darwin as facts would be nothing more than junk science,’ a creationism supporter testified inside the board hearing Tuesday to consider potential changes to instructional materials, including biology textbooks. Many creationism supporters argued that instructional materials should question Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

‘You will strike the final blow to the teaching of evolution,’ said former board chair and outspoken creationist Don McLeroy, who aroused confusion among board members in his argument in favor of the current textbooks. Written under his watch, McLeroy says the instructional materials already weaken the arguments for evolution.

‘Your position is that these books prove that evolution doesn't happen and you want us to adopt them?’ asked board member Thomas Ratliff, who replaced McLeroy in 2010. McLeroy answered in response to Ratliff, ‘No. I did not say prove, I just said the evidence is weak.’