Re: Texas: Bill Would Allow Creationists to Grant Master's Degree in

On Mar 18, 10:43 pm, Stuart <bigdak...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 18, 12:46 pm, Jason Spaceman





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From the article:
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A Texas legislator is waging a war of biblical proportions against the
science and education communities in the Lone Star State as he fights for
a bill that would allow a private school that teaches creationism to
grant a Master of Science degree in the subject.

State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned
that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution
that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism,
was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas' Higher
Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees.

Berman's bill would allow private, non-profit educational institutions to
be exempt from the board’s authority.

“If you don’t take any federal funds, if you don’t take any state funds,
you can do a lot more than some business that does take state funding or
federal funding,” Berman says. “Why should you be regulated if you don’t
take any state or federal funding?”

HB 2800 does not specifically name ICR; it would allow any institution
that meets its criteria to be exempt from the board's authority. But
Berman says ICR was the inspiration for the bill because he feels
creationism is as scientific as evolution and should be granted equal
weight in the educational community.

“I don’t believe I came from a salamander that crawled out of a swamp
millions of years ago,” Berman told FOXNews.com. "I do believe in
creationism. I do believe there are gaps in evolution.

"But when you ask someone who believes in evolution, if you ask one of
the elitists who believes in evolution about the gaps, they’ll tell you
that the debate is over, that there is no debate, evolution is the thing,
it’s the only way to go.”
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Read it athttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509719,00.html

Text of the bill is athttp://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/
html/HB02800I.htm

J. Spaceman
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Hmmm.

I think I'll charter the Weinstein School of Witchdoctoring in Texas.
The AMA will have no authority over me, and neither will the state.

I think this could be a money maker.

Anyone else interested?

Stuart-

Texas should welcome the Astrology Institute. They can grant higher
degrees in astrology and intelligent design.

Ron Okimoto

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