Coming Soon to Texas: A Master’s Degree in Creation Science

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Because Baylor University is not doing enough to plumb the seas for Noah’s Ark, an advisory committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has recommended that the Institute for Creation Research be given the authority to grant Master’s degrees in science education. Perhaps the training will help graduates stay employed in the Lone Star State, rather than getting fired like the state’s former director of science curricula, a shameless Darwin booster.

Is Texas devolving? Not at all. According to the Institute’s mission statement, it will only enroll the self-motivated, responsible student who “is more self-disciplined (‘whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God;’ I Cor. 10:31) and takes education seriously (‘And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;’ Colossians 3:23).”

The Texas Observer reports that the same guys brought us the Creation Museum in Kentucky (see Adam frolic with the dinosaurs!), and are at work stumping for Mike Huckabee in Iowa.

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