Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

That answer is alluded to in the article: Texas has a central approval process for textbooks, and a big population. If a publisher can get on the approved list here, he's almost assured a pretty good chunk of sales just in Texas. If I remember right, only five texts were approved for high school biology in 2003, the last time biology books were reviewed. And if he can publish just a single biology text that's on the Approved List somewhere, he can likely sell a lot of copies in other places, too - including states that let local school boards approve their own texts.Fun state to live in

You would be mistaken. I was one of a couple of hundred people who testified at the 2003 hearings on biology text adoptions. A large number of us were not biologists (though at least one Nobel Prize winner was there) but were, instead, internet aficianodos of the debate.And the Discovery Institute creationists didn't get their way that time. I'm going back in 2010 to try to keep them out again.

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

You are new here, aren't you, Ichneumon? Welcome aboard! I like you already!

I don't think so. If that were the case, they would just occasionally bring up subjects like the non-detection of gravity waves and gravitons to date. This gravity "theory" has a rather big weakness there, seeing as we can't find how it works. The "teach the controversy" crowd does, I'll grant, seem to be less than fond of dark matter and dark energy - but you don't see them wanting to rewrite physics textbooks - only biology ones.

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD