How can they give a Master's Degree in science to creationists, when it
isn't science?

This is exactly what I said before, creationists fail every time in
science, so they go the political route with compliant whores...I mean
politicians.

Oh what the hey, let them give out Master's in creation science.
Then allow Master's in astrology.
Then Alchemy.
Then UFO-olgy.



A Texas legislator is waging a war of biblical proportions against the
science and education communities in the Lone Star State as he fights
for a bill that would allow a private school that teaches creationism to
grant a Master of Science degree in the subject.

State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned
that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution
that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism,
was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas' Higher
Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees.

Berman's bill would allow private, non-profit educational institutions
to be exempt from the board's authority.

"If you don't take any federal funds, if you don't take any state funds,
you can do a lot more than some business that does take state funding or
federal funding," Berman says. "Why should you be regulated if you don't
take any state or federal funding?"

....

"Right now, we don't have this problem in Texas. Texas is not a center
for degree mills, because our laws allow only the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board to approve the granting of graduate degrees."

"It would certainly open the door to all kinds of chicanery," says
Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science
Education. "I mean, all you have to do, it looks to me from the bill, is
start a non-profit organization, don't take any federal or state money,
and then offer degrees in any fool subject you want."

Schafersman fears that amending state law to accommodate institutions
such as ICR would devalue Texas graduate degrees.

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--- Xnews/5.04.25