Conservative Republicans who brought international attention to Kansas by approving academic standards calling evolution into question lost control of the state school board in primaries.As a result of the vote, board members and candidates who believe evolution is well-supported by evidence will have a 6-4 majority. Evolution skeptics had entered the election with a 6-4 majority.
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The most closely watched race was in western Kansas, where incumbent conservative Connie Morris lost her GOP primary to Sally Cauble. Both are former educators, but Morris had described evolution as ``an age-old fairy tale'' and ``a nice bedtime story'' unsupported by science.
Critics of Kansas' science standards worried that if conservatives retained the board's majority, it would lead to attempts in other states to copy the Kansas standards.
``There are people around the country who would like to see the Kansas standards in their own states,'' said Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif., which supports the teaching of evolution.
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It's a definite shift in allele frequency, due to natural selection.
Hopefully job 1 will be to get rid of the creationist standards. But job 2 has to be to fire the hack that they hired as Education Commissioner.