3. CREATIONISM IN TEXAS: ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.
Texas is a huge textbook market with a major influence on content. Republican Governor Rick Perry, and Don McLeroy, a dentist who chairs the State Board of Education, are both creationists. So are 7 of the 15 board members. And this summer the board will determine the curriculum for the next decade. Curriculum standards call for teaching the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution. The "weaknesses" seen by the creationists are religious objections. The New York Times quotes McLeroy as saying, "that little baby born in the manger was the god that created the universe."