Why the Texas Board of Education Results Were Good — but Not Great — News for Science
Good: Because Don McLeroy -- the guy who, according to The New York Times, identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was
Jul 31, 202046.6K Shares1.7M Views
Good: Because Don McLeroy — the guy who, according to The New York Times, “identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago” — will no longer have voting powerto dictate the content of the state’s public school textbooks.
Not Great: Because McLeroy’s challenger, Republican Thomas Ratcliff, won with just 50.5 percent of the vote — a razor-thin margin indicating that roughly half of the district wanted McLeroy to remain.
Paula M. Graham
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