Hey Texas! I mispoke!

As The Blog of the Airtightnoodle points out, I spoke too soon.  Yes, the Texas board of education did vote to strike the “strength and weaknesses” phrasing from the current science standards, but they are now looking to allow arguments against common descent into the curriculum.  Oops!  As airtightnoodle explains:
This proposal is completely unscientific and [...]

Good for you Texas!

AUSTIN – In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be “weaknesses” in the theory of evolution.
via Texas Board of Education votes against teaching evolution weaknesses | News for Dallas, [...]