Texas Reviewers Reject Accurate Evolution Curriculum Because It "Contradicts Biology Textbooks"

In our recent report on proposed Texas teaching materials, we found that many of the materials on evolution were full of errors. Not only did some of the materials include Haeckel's embryo drawings, they also included inaccurate claims about supposed "vestigial" organs, and myths about the Miller-Urey experiment. Nearly all of the proposed materials present evolution in a one-sided fashion, entirely ignoring the following requirement of the Texas Science Standards (called "TEKS"):

(3) (A...