Don McLeroy: "My wonderful opponents are wrong!"

And what are they wrong about? Chairman Don notes the both the sudden appearance of new groups in the fossil (such as during the Cambrian explosion) and stasis in others is clear evidence that evolution doesn't work.

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• Don McLeroy
• Texas
• board of education
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• education
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• sudden appearance
• stasis
• Cambrian
• gradualism
• Darwin

[omiteru]

Don McLeroy is not ignorant. His goal is straight and simple to undermine the teaching of evolution. He is very smart. He manipulates English to present his argument. The tries to make people believe that the CE was less that 20 million years. Also, he tries to make people believe that he has a greater understanding of the theory of evolution than all the biology scientist around the world. The students in Texas will be confused about biology.

[Arfalarf]

The Cambrian explosion only happened "immediately" on a geologic timescale.

But "immediately" on a geologic timescale means 50 million years!

That's plenty of time for evolution to work with!

This man would make George Orwell roll over in his grave.

[bloodties1]

*facepalm*

[WildcardHatesYou]

Typical creatard - ignores the 99.99% that disagrees with his magic book, and waves around the 0.01% of psuedo science that he thinks does.

[jebus6kryst]

What a moron.

[drfoxcourt]

McLeroy has stated elsewhere that he doesn't believe life on earth is more than 10,000 years old, yet he uses 550 million years ago as the date for the cambrian explosion. His is a charlatan of the first order, self-justified to lie for his God, and an exploiter of credulous people. Humanity, take a good look at your would be oppressor. Shame on anyone who thought he should lead education in Texas.

[CBALLEN]

It's amazing to see people who can't take opposition to their religion,ah theory.

[ChesapeakeBeach]

McElroy: Another fool who thinks he's got it all figured out.

[arshsingh1984]

So wait; I'm confused. The older fossils are simpler, and the newer fossils are more complex... therefore evolution is wrong?

[byteresistor]

This guy is a dentist. He knows everything about science. Better than the numerous of scientists who came to explain to him how science works.

Look mr. "know it all", the cambrian explosion didn't happen overnight, it lasted for dozens of millions of years. We have evidence from todays world that some species change "dramatically" in evolutionary terms within decades in infront of our very eyes. There's no rule in evolution that everything must always evolve at the same slow pace.

[icemachine79]

I wonder if this man has the intellectual capacity to correctly understand the theory of evolution at all, and if he does one day actually comprehend it, just how silly he will feel watching himself on video saying these ridiculous things.

[wrongwayup]

Ok, thanks. I guess I could have looked that up.

And yes, they are probably hard headed. I doubt another court would come to a different verdict, given the clear ruling of the court in the Dover case.