The Institute for Creation Research has taken its fight to train future science teachers to the federal courthouse.
The Dallas-based group alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its civil rights by denying the institute’s request to offer a master’s degree in science education.
The board said the program did not meet state academic standards.
The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Dallas, alleges that the higher-education agency rejected the degree program because of the institute’s claim that scientific evidence shows the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Among the institute’s arguments in the lawsuit: “The monopolistic realities of the science education market in Texas (and in America generally) would limit creationist learners to science education opportunities from evolutionist graduate schools.”
It says the institute is “the only graduate school which specializes in creationism-informed science education.”
