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The Donnybrook
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
 
The Flat Earth Society Takes A (s)Hit In Kansas...

It's good to see the voters of Kansas make such an "evolved" decision.
Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.

Five of the 10 seats on the board were up for election in the primary, the latest skirmish in a seesawing battle between faith and science that has opened Kansas up to international ridicule.

Last November, the Board of Education’s 6-to-4 conservative Republican majority rewrote testing standards for public schools to incorporate language supported by advocates of intelligent design, which holds that life is so complex it must have been created by some kind of higher power. The new standards say that some aspects of evolution are contradicted by scientific evidence.
I apologize if anyone was grossed out by my horrible use of a pun in the first line of this piece. In retrospect, it even gave me the twinge in my taint...



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