Don McLeroy is generally available to journalists between 12.30 and 1.30pm. The rest of the time he is either fixing the teeth of patients he considers to be direct descendents of Adam and Eve, or making space for his “Young Earth” world view in the textbooks of Texan schoolchildren.

Dr McLeroy is probably the most influential dentist in the history of America’s culture wars. Cheerful, tireless and utterly single-minded, he sports a moustache reminiscent of Hergé’s Thompson twins. He describes himself as a Christian fundamentalist and believes Earth was created 10,000 years ago.

His views would matter little were he not also chairman of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), which oversees the biggest textbook-procurement programme in the United States and for the past two years has been dominated by creationists like himself.

Oooh! I remember the last time we had a discussion on Texan Christians and Education in the Meeting Place. Anybody else?

No but there is no limit to the stupidity of this education board.

Oooh! I remember the last time we had a discussion on Texan Christians and Education in the Meeting Place. Anybody else?

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=328808&highlight=texas

I waited 3.5 pages to chime in. Either way, it was a ludicrously argumentative thread because people here find it difficult to be open to debate on some topics. But hey, fill your boots...

I mis-read the subject - I thought it said “cretinism”. I am disappointed that I was wrong.

Surprisingly, I think my posts were some of the shortest and most on-topic in the entire thread. How uncharacteristically refrained of me. I still stand by them.