Kansas State Board Approves Teaching Standards Skeptical of Evolution

Fox News ^ | 11-08-05 | WestVirginiaRebel

[WestVirginiaRebel]

TOPEKA, Kan.-New science standards for Kansas' public schools, criticized for promoting creationism while treating evolution as a flawed theory, won approval Tuesday from the State Board of Education.

The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards and argued the changes would make teaching about evolution more balanced and expose studels teach science.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

And the dumbing down of American education continues. (Mispelling in the article theirs, not mine : ))

[miele man]

neither link works.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Yay! The people have spoken and have said NO to commies, athiests and monkey worshippers!

[Right Wing Professor]

In addition, the board rewrote the standards' definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Astrology, anyone?

[qam1]

Thank You Kansas

From the parents of these kids

Who will be competing against yours in the future

[blowfish]

When the different viewpoints lack any scientific evidence, they aren't appropriate for a science class. Unless you want to combine them with Astrology, Phrenology and reading tealeaves and have a "Theories that have no supporting evidence yet are strangely popular" day.

[gobucks]

NBC News tonight had a huge segment on it. Nothing new in it, and the Kansas Republicans handily dealt with the frustrated demoncrats this morning....

[HHKrepublican_2]

What really happened- 1
Moon God Multicultural Solstice worshippers- 0

[RogueIsland]

In addition, the board rewrote the standards' definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Hogwarts, here we come!

[jbloedow]

Thank You Kansas

Oh, man, now we're going to have a whole generation of Kansans who learn how to question what they're told and think for themselves! The sky really is falling. Somebody put a stop to this. What's next!?!?!?! Education?

[HHKrepublican_2]

I believe in Divine Intervention, that God took set in motion the things we see today, including 'Evolution'...and believe science the study of God's creations.

[jbloedow]

When the different viewpoints lack any scientific evidence, they aren't appropriate for a science class.

Wow, good thing the highly religious scientists responsible for the scientific revolution didn't know about your radical, presuppositionally secularist, circular definition of science when they were coming up with the scientific revolution upon which everything you call science is built.

[blowfish]

In addition, the board rewrote the standards' definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Coming soon to a chemistry class in Topeka:
"Johnny, why didn't your chemistry experiment work like the lab manual describes?"
"Err, Um, I think a demon must have made my flask boil over!"
"Very good! Class, we will now hold an exorcism over Johnny's flask. Everyone join hands..."

[Right Wing Professor]

They will rue the day. I know the way admissions departments in major universities work. They know very little about the red states, but usually admit some number of students for 'geographical diversity'. They like good test scores, of course, but very often they're simply going on a very limited set of information as to how good a particular school system or undergraduate institution is.

I can guarantee you that the one big thing that Harvard and MIT and Caltech admissions now know about Kansas is that they threw out the biology curriculum and replaced it with fundamentalist Christianity. You and I both know that's an exaggeration, but it's the way blue staters think, and you can bewail it all you want. So they'll take a few more bright students from Iowa and Nebraska, and let the Kansans go to KU or KSU.

Of course, as a Nebraskan, I'm delighted. :-)

[IrishCatholic]

Ouch, looks like someone's sacred cow just got pin pricked. I would email more but I am on the way to burn a witch.
Just kidding.

If evolution is the final answer to the origin of life, then it will survive scrutiny. It will survive criticism. It will survive being questioned.

What is happening in Kansas isn't a slide into the dark ages, but an opening of a window to inquiry and intellectual freedom.
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