Evolution Controversy: (Kansas) science standards up for new vote

[Moloch]

TOPEKA - A day after Charles Darwin's birthday, scientists, educators and other Kansans expect to mark the occasion again by watching the state school board dump science standards questioning his theory of evolution.

The State Board of Education plans to vote Tuesday on its fifth set of standards in eight years, with critics of evolution and supporters of mainstream science having traded power twice. Democrats and moderate Republicans have a 6-4 majority, dooming guidelines that brought Kansas ridicule when they were adopted 14 months ago.

The board's vote next week also appears likely to bring Kansas another round of international attention. Opposing groups like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington, and the Discovery Institute, which promotes intelligent-design research from Seattle, are watching.

Events leading up to the 2005 standards spawned rival documentaries, both of which were to be shown publicly today, the 198th anniversary of Darwin's birth. The pro-evolution camp planned an entire week of events, including a Darwin costume contest to complement their "Flock of Dodos" viewing on the University of Kansas campus.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/16679810.htm?source=rss&channel=kansas_news

[tanyev]

1. "The pro-evolution camp"

This is the legacy of Fox News. Every divisive issue only has groups of believers on either side. There are no facts, there is no truth.


*sigh*

[CGrantt57]

2. I think the division is fair.

We can be the "pro-evolution" side.

They can be "The Idiots."

Works for me.

:toast:

Regards,

[Doondoo]

3. Just call it the "pro-truth" camp

[Stuckinthebush]

4. Same crazy group as the "Pro-Earth is Round" camp

I wish someone would get control of these science wackos!

[hunter]

8. Fair and balanced...

If you seek the middle ground between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and untruth, then you will be evil, wrong, and untruthful.

[Javaman]

5. just put a wheel of fortune in each science class.

with two categories, Evolution and creationism, then spin it.

that seems to be the best way to define these mouth breathing clods in kansas.

I hate living in an alternative universe.

[kineneb]

6. holy Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Are those bozos still arguing myth vs. science? I am so glad that great-grandfather packed up the family in 1908 and moved from Kansas to California. Sheeesh.

...think I will go back to my bowl of pasta now...

Ramen.

[Karmageddon]

7. Evolution "Controversy"? Is that like the "cigarettes cause cancer" controversy?

Or the "boinking without condoms causes pregnancy" controversy?

There is no controversy, contrary to what the morons on foxnews and the fundie religious whackjobs say.

[maddezmom]

9. kick

[rodeodance]

10. God, Darwin clash again in Kansas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070213/ts_nm/usa_kansas_dc;_ylt=Au8OTBCMEtS8CSoQsdn5qYXMWM0F

God, Darwin clash again in Kansas

By Carey Gillam Tue Feb 13, 7:19 AM ET

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) - For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing to take up the issue of evolution and what to teach -- or not teach -- public school students about the origins of life.


After victory at the polls in November, a moderate majority on the 10-member board in the central U.S. state plans to overturn science standards seen as critical of evolution at a board meeting on Tuesday in Topeka.

New standards would replace those put in place in 2005 by a conservative board majority that challenged the validity of evolution and cited it as incompatible with religious doctrine.

The 2005 action outraged scientists across the United States, with the
National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association refusing a request by Kansas to use copyrighted material in textbooks.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Aren't God and Darwin always clashing in Kansas?

They should start calling it "Bloody Kansas" again.

[derby378]

13. God has nothing against Darwin...

...it's those crazed fundies who claim allegiance to God that you have to watch out for.

[Richard Steele]

15. ...

[Buzz Clik]

12. This won't end.

Not unlike Kim Jong Il, the Kansas Krazies have nothing to think about all day long except how to stir the pot.

You can slap them down and vote them out and give them humiliating public spankings, but they keep coming.

[wtmusic]

14. The same NSTA that rejected free copies of "An Inconvenient Truth"?

The fundies just need to cough up more "green", like big oil, and they'll get their wish.