Reporting From the Front Lines of the Texas Evolution Debate
Just hours before the Texas State Board of Education held its final hearings on the science education standards that would be put in place for the next decade, I set my kitchen timer for three minutes. I practiced my testimony among open jars of peanut butter and jelly strewn about from making kids' lunches. Ding. I still had my conclusion to read. What could I cut?
For months I had been slinking around the controversy in Texas. I had gone to ...
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Although hypothesis and theory are often used simultaneously, the truly scientific among us are always open to new hypotheses that challenge established scientific theory. Only those with shallow grounding in science wish to close the door to inquiry that might reveal new evidence challenging established scientific theory. This sort of closed-mindedness results in a stranglehold much like that imposed by the Catholic Church at the dawn of the scientific era. The "science gestapo," as some observers have called it.