Science wins in Texas

A few days ago I wrote about the Texas school board holding hearings on whether to force schools to purchase science textbooks that include creationism.  Given past history with the school board, I was not hopeful that science and reason would prevail.  But they did.

Today the State Board of Education voted to adopt the Texas education commissioner’s recommended list of science instructional materials. Special interest groups and activists off the state board failed in their efforts to force publishers to change their instructional materials to include arguments against evolutionary science. In addition, the board voted unanimously to reject the adoption of instructional materials from a New Mexico-based vendor that promoted “intelligent design”/creationism.

I never thought I'd say this, but: way to go Texas!

[Via Texas Freedom Network]