SBOE Chair Don McLeroy expounds on his view of Evolution

Don McLeroy talking about why "the great claim of evolution" is flawed.

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[mattbudnick]

Texas, this is your Chair of the state board of education? The rest of the world is embracing science and the progress that it brings, meanwhile Texas is trying to teach students theories that have no actual support. If you want to reject evolution, you need to have something better to replace it with. Repeating the same claims over and over without evidence is not a good way to go about that.

Texas can teach bronze age mythology , but the rest of the world will leave you in the dust.

[calladus]

Oh Noes! It's the Cambrian Explosion when "Kaboom!" All the animals just suddenly appeared all at once!

heh. An explosion that lasted 70 million years long.

Someone get Mr. McLeroy a textbook, preferable not one made in Texas.

[ekorre33]

Wow.........wow.........what can one say? Good for you Texas for abandoning reason and reality in favor of fairytales! McElroy obviously forgot to bring his shotgun to the meeting.

[claudiaquat]

We don't want creationism in the science classroom for the same reason we don't want pig manure served in the school cafeteria. Instead of talking about creationism in schools we should be talking about getting evolution taught in churches. That's where the ignorance is.

[hedleypanama]

He was right until 1:00. He promised 2 "arguments": he explained the "Cambrian explosion" argument and I was not able to listen the second one...

BTW how can the deluge explain it?

[WinterWeaver]

Everything is bigger in Texas. Yeah, even the Bullshit is bigger... XD

[nola70126]

I say to hell with them...let them do what they wish. just don't send your kids there...LOL! I know I haven't lost anything there

[drfoxcourt]

Clearly McLeroy is getting his information and talking points from creationist (religious) institutes. If he got his information un-cherry-picked from reputable scientists he'd have realized that the Cambrian explosion supports evolution, and not his belief that the earth is 6000 years old (as he has testified many times).

McLeroy is being willfully deceptive for his religious purposes.

[mikeeboy1000]

BRAVO!!

[Ematched]

God!!! He is an absolute moron. He's arguing with Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory as his evidence, but he clearly has never even read the first fucking chapter.

Clue: evolution is marked by periods of STASIS and SPECIATION, the latter coming as a result of punctuated equilibrium.

I'm as furious as the "Chairman." Gould wrote in English, and this buffoon hasn't understood a single complete thought in the mammoth of a text.

Sometimes, it's embarrassing to be American.

[crabbit101]

Fuck me, this is painful to watch. He's a disgrace to the human race and is going to fail millions of children. What a twat.

[miniontemple]

It's offensive that no one there knew enough about evolution and the cambrian explosion to point out how stupid he is being.