TX State Board of Ed

Don McLeroy’s regressive political agenda clearly disqualifies him from serving on the Texas State Board of Education.

At least as it applies to humans, McLeroy unabashedly refuses to accept the abundant and consistent scientific evidence for biological evolution (here, here & here) from astronomists, physicists, biochemists, geochronologists, geologists, biologists, anthropologists, geneticists, and other scientific disciplines.

McLeroy refuses scientific evidence for biological evolution because he thinks it is incompatible with the tenets and political goals of his religion. He believes that humans were created in the exact form as we exist today and his admitted political goal is to eradicate all mention of scientific evidence for human biological evolution from Texas text books and to replace it with his particular brand of religious conviction.

McLeroy is entitled to shrug off sound scientific evidence for the theories of gravity, round earth, as well as for human evolution. He is also entitled to his religious beliefs about creation. But as a member of a state agency that is responsible for ensuring state text books are free of factual errors, he is not entitled to censure what school children learn about accurate science. Nor is he entitled to turn Texas text books into creationist propaganda mills.

We have, of course, an inviolable obligation to our children to facilitate their access to modern scientific and technical knowledge. Don McLeroy’s presence on the State Board of Education would unquestionably interfere with that obligation.