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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is deciding next month whether to allow a bunch of Jesusers at the Institution for Creation Research offer science teaching degrees. One might assume that their particular brand of “science” includes lots of amino acids and dinosaurs named Adam, Eve, Eve, Adam and maybe also Eve. MORE »

Once upon a time, Chris Comer was a middle school science teacher. Then, almost a decade ago, she became the director of science curriculum at the Texas Education Agency, a job she was forced to resign this month. What happened? Well, in the last ten years the Goddies figured out a way (”intelligent” design) to get their religious world view taught in science classes, and they were afraid Chris might stand in their way.

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Dingbat diaperman David Vitter caught earmarking a hundred grand for creationist nuts. [NOLA]

* Ken “Wanna See Me Fit My Whole Foot In My Mouth?” Livingstone made London proud again. Blogger David Bernstein gives him a crash course in Jewish marriage — with a thinly veiled hint that he’s registered at Pottery Barn. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t want the kids learning creationism. Tristero, blogging live from sixteenth-century England, claims the trend-setting Archbishop has “irrevocably recast the [creationism] debate.” [Hullabaloo]
* Josh! Come stai? Come si dice “Run this script by De Niro” in italiano? [Talking Points Memo]
* John Burgess petitions Tiger Beat for a Tony Blair spread. [Outside the Beltway]
* The Amazon is thriving on its own decay. Research dibs on “Orrin Hatch: Biome in Disguise” [Tim Blair]