Kansas Schools OK Scrutiny of Evolution
"Scrutiny of evolution?"
My head is getting ready to exlpode....
This strikes as being similar to saying "Fergie okays scrutiny of Happy Hour"...
The fact that it exists never seems to faze some people when their rationale -- or rather, their determination to legitimize their own beliefs -- seems to get in the way of the facts.
An AP newswire article, via ABC News, alarms us with this:
The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 Tuesday to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote.
The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language favored by the board Tuesday comes from advocates of intelligent design.
The intelligent design concept holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause. Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years through natural selection.
posted by Fergie @ 8/10/2005 08:55:00 PM
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