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We support objective teaching and equal treatment of strengths and weaknesses of scientific theories, including Intelligent Design. We believe theories of life origins and environmental theories should be taught as scientific theory, not scientific law. Teachers and students should be able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these theories openly and without fear of retribution or discrimination of any kind.
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Scientific literacy is key to a good education. It must include robust knowledge of prevailing scientific theories. This includes evolution, the only commonly accepted science on the origin of life.

Intelligent design is a form of creationism. As a nonscientific religious belief, creationism does not belong in science classes.

Furthermore, creationism is a limited view within Christianity. Most American Christians belong to denominations that do not endorse this viewpoint.

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Restoring American Sovereignty and Leadership > Domestic > NASA
We support appropriate funding for NASA and the Texas Aerospace Commission. We also support private sector research and development of space technology.
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This contradicts other planks that call for elimination of all federal programs not in the Constitution's enumerated powers. NASA is not such a power.

It is difficult to place NASA in a platform document for a fiscally conservative Texas party. The greater Houston area clearly benefits from NASA's presence. However, far too much of NASA's work either has no direct or even near-term application that will possibly benefit humanity, and even the parts that do benefit humanity are so collosally expensive to be a grossly inefficient way to develop useful technology. Therefore, much of NASA is a make-work program for nerds. If NASA must be in the platform, the plank must oppose much of NASA's current allocation.

The Texas Aerospace Commission should have been decommissioned per the Texas Sunset Commission because it "is not an efficient use of the State’s limited resources." It is ironic for a platform plank to directly support wasteful spending.

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