Author Archives: Don McLeroy

HoustonChronicle.com — http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Viewpoints, Outlook Oct. 22, 2003, 6:40PM Keep good science in, dogma out of textbooks By DON McLEROY THE State Board of Education is required by law to adopt textbooks that are factually correct and adequately cover the … Continue reading →

Historical Reality An analysis writteni n 2003 that uses logical argument to show the weakness of evolution.

AAAS News Story 1 April 2009

Books Read on Evolution

McLeroy: Texas’ evolution teaching meets science standards Don McLeroy, Special Contributor Updated: 7:09 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 Published: 6:40 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 The big story concerning the release of the Fordham Institute’s “State of the State Science Standards 2012” is not the overall grade that Texas received … Continue reading →

From Texas Freedom Network’s Friday, April 21, 2017 press release: ‘Southern Methodist University professor Ron Wetherington, who served on the state-appointed panel, praised today’s outcome. “For the first time in decades, the science standards contain no controversial student expectations and … Continue reading →

Fact Checking the TFN Texas Freedom Networks’ press release last Friday, April 21, 2017, stated “Other anti-evolution standards are also removed or gutted.”  Here are the “other standards.” 2009 Science Standards 7 (B) analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data … Continue reading →

Removed or Kept? Kept! 2009 Science Standards 7 (B) analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data of sudden appearance, stasis, and sequential nature of groups in the fossil record; 7 (G) analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning the complexity of the … Continue reading →

Hardline evolutionist’s attempt to hijack the Texas science standards crashed and burned as the Texas State Board of Education, not only kept all of the previous evolution challenging standards of 2009, but made them clearer and stronger.   The new … Continue reading →

Response to Jerry Coyne’s Blog post: Evidence for Whales https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/evidence-for-evolution-whales/ Considering Carl Sagan’s “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Jon Peter’s video fails Sagan’s test for whale evolution; he doesn’t realize he has not presented very much evidence. If he would … Continue reading →