Texas State Board of Education to Make Critical Science Courses Decision

The Essence of Science is skepticism to challenge theories! By Steve Smith Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas I would like to suggest that if the Texas State Board of Education does away with Sections 3A 7B 7G and 9D in the Texas Science Curriculum Requirements we would be depriving our Texas students of gaining new important knowledge of the natural world. 7… says the Student should know the evolutionary theory is a scientific explanation not the only explanation. 7B… asks the students to critically examine evolution; specifically with regard to:

Stasis is a universally accepted fact has become an embarrassing feature of the fossil record. Even our Pearson textbook specifically covers stasis and living fossils mentioning the coelacanth as an example.

Our own McGraw Hill textbook covers the sequential nature of groups in the fossil record. It suggests that Whales came from land animals really?

The old Darwinian view of evolution as a ladder of more and more efficient forms leading up to the present is not borne out by the evidence".

• Piltdown Man was a hoax
• Nebraska man was reconstructed from a the tooth of a pig
• Lucy was an extinct ape
• Remember Darwin himself said the lack of transitional fossils is the big problem with my theory."

And finally the fossil record is full of organisms that suddenly appear all at once and fully formed with no traceable ancestor like clams snails sponges trilobites and jellyfish. In conclusion these important thought-provoking concepts are covered in our students textbooks the teacher surveys said leave it the same the majority of public comment says to keep it. Most importantly it does promote critical thinking amongst our students. 7G… In this section where students are asked to understand that all things slowly evolved over time the modern microscope has presented that the makeup of a cell is so complex students are challenged to answer what part evolved first when it needs all of its parts to exist? 9D… No one was there when life began; so it is all speculation. However the modern Law of Biology states:"Life cannot come from nonlife! However the Pearson textbook suggests that life came from chemicals because the Earth lacked oxygen". Yet Pearson admits that the overall path from chemical events to molecules to cells remains unresolved. This is a dated hypothesis. New research suggests that the Earths surface was always oxygenated. Furthermore if there is no 9D are we proposing to teach that DNA which is information came from something non-intelligent? It is like asking our students to believe a tornado passed through a junkyard and assembled a jumbo jet. With regard to 3A Texas own Pearson textbook uses The Flores Hobbit Controversy to teach our students how important it is to examine all sides of the evidence. In conclusion these recommendations by the Biology Committee water down student skepticism and simply push a monolith of facts. The bottom line is science has brought us to the brink of a post Theory of Evolution period. So either Texas is going to lead our progeny with 21st century evidence or continue to explain a 19th century theory and be like the evolutionists  an Emperor without clothes!