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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Full Text of Texas Biology Professors' Letter

Available here.

Keep reading for my favorite excerpt.


A massive body of scientific evidence supports evolution. All working scientists agree that publication in top peer-reviewed journals is the scoreboard of modern science. A quick database search of scientific publications since 1975 shows 29,639 peer-reviewed scientific papers on evolution in twelve leading journals alone. To put this in perspective, if you read 5 papers a day, every day, it would take you 16 years to read this body of original research. These tens of thousands of research papers on evolution provide overwhelming support for the common ancestry of living organisms and for the mechanisms of evolution including natural selection. In contrast, a search of the same database for "Intelligent Design" finds a mere 24 articles, every one of which is critical of intelligent design. Given that evolution currently has a score of 29,639-while "intelligent design" has a score of exactly zero-it is absurd to expect the TEA's director of science curriculum to "remain neutral" on this subject.



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