Texas Creationists Raise Their Ugly Head

The Texas Education Agency has given the "heave-ho" to their Director of Science, Christina Castillo Comer, because she sent a pro-evolution advocacy group an e-mail informing the group of a presentation being given by a professor who provided expert testimony in the Dover, Pennsylvania creationism trial. Texas officials point out that Ms. Comer resigned, but resignation under duress isn't any different from an old-fashioned firing in my book.

The reason for Ms. Comer's canning is that "Creationism" (a/k/a "Intelligent Design") advocates won't take no for an answer and are preparing for a 2008 campaign to hijack the Texas Board of Education into making the same mistake as the Dover, Pennsylvania School Board and mandating the teaching of creationism as science.

Ms. Comer, a career science teacher, was seen by Pro-Creationism advocates as a major stumbling block in their drive towards mandating creationism in Texas schools, and they seized upon the e-mail as an excuse to remove that barrier.

The decision rendered by Federal District Court Judge Jones in the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial provides a thorough analysis of why "Intelligent Design" is not science, but rather a veiled attempt to teach religion in school under the guise of science. Such attempts by government to advance religion violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and cannot not be tolerated.

It's a sad commentary on the competency of education officials in Texas who refuse to learn from the mistakes of others, namely, the Dover School Board. You'd think they'd know better, but apparently not.