Subject: Texas Freedom Network

• It's Science: Ninety-Nine Percent of Texas Science Professors Surveyed Don't Believe in Intelligent Design

  Moments ago, the Texas Freedom Network posted to its Web site a study conducted by Dr. Raymond Eve, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, titled Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century. It reveals the results of a survey sent to biology and "biological anthropology" faculty members from "all 35 public universities plus the 15 largest private institutions in Texas," in

  November 17, 2008

• Prof to Creationists: Don't Mess With Texas Science Education

  Barbara Forrest, speaking at SMU last week In keeping with the spirit of Monday's item concerning the release of the study Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century, last week SMU hosted a speech by Barbara Forrest, author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. Forrest, a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University, is perhaps intelligent design's biggest foe -- as evide

  November 19, 2008

• Cynthia Dunbar's Gone From Crazy Online Essays to Actual Book Writin'

  Texas State Board of Education member Mavis Knight, a Democrat whose District 13 includes part of Dallas and Tarrant Counties, had no idea till reached by Unfair Park this afternoon that her fellow board member Cynthia Dunbar has published a book. But, sure enough, there it is on Amazon: One Nation Under God: How the Left is Trying to Erase What Made Us Great. Dunbar -- who, days before the presidential election, infamously published an online essay insisting Barack Obama is a terrorist sympathi

  December 4, 2008

• Events for the week

  April 18, 1996

• GOP to gays: Butt out

  September 3, 1998

• Buzz

  May 6, 1999

• Sex "Education" Has Failed Texas Students, Says Texas State University Study

  Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network, a group that aims to counter the radical religious right, went to all the trouble to come up with their most recent report, Just Say Don't Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools. Drs. D

  February 24, 2009

• Highwaymen

  July 20, 2000

• Natural Selection Only a "Figure of Speech," Says State Education Board Chair

  Don McLeroyDon McLeroy, a Republican dentist from Bryan, is the chair of the Texas State Board of Education. He's also a book critic: Over the weekend, an indie book publisher posted his recommendation of Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.'s new book Sowing Atheism: The National Academy Of Sciences' Sinister Scheme To Teach Our Children They're Descended From Reptiles, which you can read in its entirety here because you know you need something to read over spring break. McLeroy writes, in part:In the curr

  March 18, 2009

• For Now, at Least, Evolution Rules the Day at State Board of Education Hearing

  Explosm!Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday's public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today's evolution vs. creationism vote -- which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution. (Dallas's Mavis Knight voted against the amendment favored by chairman Don McLeroy and Cynthia Dunbar, among others.)For those so interested,

  March 26, 2009

• Buzz: Sex Ed in Texas Gets an "F"

  February 26, 2009

• Battle Against Teaching Evolution in Texas Begins

  Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not just Texas–will challenge the theory of evolution in science curricula

  March 20, 2008

• Free Man Walking|Stuffed Stuertz|Back Off a Bit|We Are Devo

  Hey, Mark, for God's sake—just give us the time. Accurately, please.

  February 14, 2008

• Evolution Sunday Especially Important in Texas

  February 7, 2008

• Maverick rides again

  Democratic media whiz Mark McKinnon left partisan politics behind until George W. Bush swept him off his feet

  September 30, 1999

• Licensed to Speak

  Run from any political group with "freedom" or "liberty" in its name

  November 3, 2005

• Right Hand of God

  Two Texas leaders of the extreme Religious Right get ready to flex their political muscle

  February 17, 2005

• They Blinded Buzz with Science

  The Texas Freedom Network keeps a watch on the state's textbooks

  November 28, 2002