Stand Up For Fact-Based Education

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Secular Coalition for America: Action Alert - Tell Your Representative to Stand Up For Fact-Based Education
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By now, you've probably heard about the Texas State Board of Education's moves to impose educational standards into its textbooks intended to indoctrinate Texas public school students with a telling of U.S. history that is based in extremist religious ideology.

You've probably also heard about some of the more jaw-dropping proposed changes to the curriculum, such as booting Thomas Jefferson off of a list of influential thinkers in place of explicitly religious figures, and the totally fabricated assertion that our system of government is based specifically on the laws of Moses. This comes from the same group of theocrats who famously fought to undermine evolution in science classes and delete from science textbooks the scientific consensus on the age of the universe because they conflict with the Bible.

As terrible as this religious imposition is for Texas students, all Americans have reason to fear. Due to the size of the Texas textbook market (and because other highly populated states do not use statewide textbook contracts in the say way), the backward dictates of its theocratic school board effect textbooks used by public school students all across the country.

Someone in Congress is finally standing up to this abuse of power and unconstitutional overreach by the religious extremists on the Texas State Board of Education. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (T-DX) recently introduced a resolution (H. Res. 1593) that supports fact-based curricula in public schools without meddling by those with an avowed religious agenda. Students in Texas and all across America need to know that Congress wants them to have an education based on facts and science, not myth and religious bias.

TAKE ACTION NOW: Watch the video message above from Secular Coalition for America Executive Director Sean Faircloth supporting Rep. Johnson's resolution, and then tell your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor.

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• Institute for Humanist Studies
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[Hashime777222]

I never understood this. I went to a publicly funded catholic school from jk to grade 12. We never once debated the fact the universe is billions of years old, my school taught the sciences so well non-catholic students attended for the better academic standard, in fact my priest has even mentioned how ridiculous not believing evolution is. I don't understand the "bible belt" at all.

[FrankCastlez]

@TheOmegadumbass is so bankrupt on any of the Odumber issues he\she resorts to making the subject about me!

gawd, your extremely pathetic.

yawn.

[Flusercom]

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[Spasatcom]

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[jandkas]

@Hashime777222 Catholics are generally better since the pope even believes in evolution but rednecks (CHRISTIANS*COUGH)are rednecks

[delendt57]

Please forgive my various spelling errors...that would be Big BANG (as in Evolution), not Big BANK (the illustrious Federal Reserve)

[delendt57]

The big bank theory has much to do with "matter being created or destroyed" ...as in ...where did all that stuff/gas/debris come from that exploded int he big bang? And, admittedly I am not a scientist, nor a science major. I am an intelligent person with a a critical and skeptical mind who does not like to be lied to. I don't like other people being lied to either, because ideas have consequences, and the consequences of believing in Evolution are hatred, racism and violence.

[delendt57]

Regarding Australopiticus: Dr. Charles F. Oxnard is a professor in the Departments of Anatomy and Anthropology, According to Dr. Oxnard, his analyses show that Australopithecus was not intermediate between Man and the apes but was uniquely different. He did a computer analysis of the bones found by not only Leakey but also his son, which showed that the creature did not walk upright, and was not a human ancestor.

[delendt57]

Have you ever taken logic? There are plenty of viable reasons why many scientists believe the BBT: 1. The professors at most universities and colleges have been taught/trained at secular humanist government universities where they were taught that the BBT and Evolution was a fact; 2. Professors who don't go along with the BBT and E tend not to get hired or tenured;

[SeanACampbell]

@slmbluebird I would also like you to explain why a massive majority of scientists support the big bang model, abiogenesis and evolution by natural selection if it violates scientific principals. These are the people most educated in these principals. Please, read any science textbook before trying to make arguments. Don't tell me you have, because your arguments show that you haven't or that if you have, you haven't understood. Alternatively, you are being intentionally dishonest.

[SeanACampbell]

@slmbluebird I would encourage you to explain exactly how the theory of evolution by natural selection violates the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum. There is no difference between the mechanics of micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Evolution is simply that mutation (by insertion, deletion or substitution) causes change to genetic code. Natural selection results in lifeforms with beneficial mutations passing on genes while those with harmful mutations not passing on their genes.