Just a guess

Marc:

I had a look at the New York Times article to which you provided a link.  As you say, it is short and not very informative.  My sense is that it is meant to warn the Enlightened that the hicks and rubes they look down on as their intellectual and moral inferiors in Texas and similarly backward places are at it again---trying to either ban the teaching of evolution in public schools or mandate the teaching of young earth creationism or both.  But let me venture a guess as to what is actually going on.  I suspect that the "Republican-dominated" state education board is considering requiring that the teaching of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory be supplemented by including some account or explanation of what critics of Darwinism and neo-Darwinism (such as David Berlinski and David Stove) have to say.  In other words the proposal would be to reveal to students that the main view being presented is not without sophisticated critics, and students should carefully consider what is being said on the competing sides of the debate.  Just a guess.  But, of course, one never knows what those rascally "Republican-dominated" boards in primitive places are really up to.  Thank God we have the New York Times (et al.) keeping an eye on them!