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Can the Texas BoE walk and deny evolution at the same time?

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
May 11, 2009 6:21 PMNov 5, 2019 7:17 AM

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What does it say about your Board of Education when ad executives for a chewing gum company understand evolution better than you do? ... or a beer company, for that matter. Of course, that's a European beer... and evidently beer was invented before the Universe itself was. Tip o' bacterium's flagellum to BABloggee Andy McMurray.

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