Steven Dale Schafersman (born November 4, 1948) is an American geologist and current president of Texas Citizens for Science, an advocacy group that opposes teaching creationism as science in the public schools.
[6] He specialized in invertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and sedimentary petrology.
Schafersman grew up collecting fossils, mushrooms, insects, rocks, minerals, and playing outdoors in Texas, Arkansas, and Illinois.
[7][8][9] In addition, he created the Free Inquiry (defunct) website, dedicated to educating the public on humanism and skepticism and the Texas Citizens for Science website, committed to opposing the representation of religious concepts such as intelligent design and creationism as science in Texas textbooks.
[10] Schafersman works against the movement to revise the Texas State Board of Education science curriculum to include religious objections to evolution.