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    Panel rejects creation institute’s proposal

    Certainly, this decision is good news, but what an outrage that it ever got this far. It is remarkable that the Board made this a unanimous decision.

    By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz

    A panel of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board voted today to reject a proposal by a Bible-oriented group to offer a master’s degree in science education.
    The unanimous vote by the board’s Academic Excellence and Research Committee came after Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes recommended against the plan submitted by the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research.
    Paredes said the institute’s program is infused with creationism and runs counter to conventions of science that hold that claims of supernatural intervention are not testable and therefore lie outside the realm of science. He also said the institute failed to demonstrate that its proposal for a master’s of science degree in science education met the coordinating board’s standards.

    "Religious belief is not science," Paredes said. "Science and religious belief are surely reconcilable, but they are not the same thing."
    The full board, which makes the final call for the agency, is scheduled to consider the matter Thursday. Judging by the panel’s unanimous vote, it appears likely that the board will also reject the institute’s proposal.
    Henry Morris, CEO of the Institute for Creation Research, said its options — assuming the full board rejects the proposal — include appealing to the board, submitting a new proposal and going to court.

    Steve Schafersman, president of Texas Citizens for Science, an advocacy group, praised Paredes for a recommendation that was "very strong and courageous."

    — Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
    Austin American-Statesman
    2008-04-23

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