The always interesting body known as the Texas State Board of Education begins meeting on Wednesday to take public hearing before a vote this week on a new science curriculum that challenges the theory of evolution.

Because Texas has such a huge textbook market, textbook companies watch the state closely and market to its standards. Changes made to the Texas curriculum, then, may affect schools across the country.

The characters on the board have again drawn national attention, this time from the Wall Street Journal. It summed up the background on SBOE Chairman Don McLeroy this way:

Dr. McLeroy believes that God created the earth less than 10,000 years ago. If the new curriculum passes, he says he will insist that high-school biology textbooks point out specific aspects of the fossil record that, in his view, undermine the theory that all life on Earth is descended from primitive scraps of genetic material that first emerged in the primordial muck about 3.9 billion years ago.

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