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Kansas Rewrites Science Standards Again
By JOHN HANNA
Associated Press Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule.
The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of "intelligent design," who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.
The intelligent design concept holds that life is so complex that it must have been created by a higher authority.
The state has had five sets of standards in eight years, with anti- and pro-evolution versions, each doomed by the seesawing fortunes of socially conservative Republicans and a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EVOLUTION_DEBATE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Five sets in eight years ? This is really be funny if not so pathetic.
By JOHN HANNA
Associated Press Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule.
The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of "intelligent design," who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.
The intelligent design concept holds that life is so complex that it must have been created by a higher authority.
The state has had five sets of standards in eight years, with anti- and pro-evolution versions, each doomed by the seesawing fortunes of socially conservative Republicans and a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EVOLUTION_DEBATE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Five sets in eight years ? This is really be funny if not so pathetic.
