Re: In the News: Kansas education board downplays evolution


MikeH wrote:

> Jason Spaceman wrote:
> > From the article:
> > ---------------------------------
> > State school board OKs standards casting doubt on Darwin
> >
> > MSNBC News Services
> > Updated: 6:53 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2005
> >
> > TOPEKA, Kan. - Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago,
> > the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards
> > Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
> >
> > The 6-4 vote was a victory for ?intelligent design? advocates who helped draft
> > the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it
> > must have been created by a higher power.
> >
> > Critics of the new language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and
> > creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and
> > state.
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> > Read it at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967813/
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Posting from rural Kansas. This comes as no surprise to me. As it
> happens I was talking to our superintendant of schools this evening at
> the local country club. I asked him how this would our local schools.
> He replied that he'd had a meeting with our science teachers today and
> told them not to change their curriculum one bit. The teachers were all
> happy with this.
> Our main business in this area is agriculture. wheat, cattle,
> soybeans, and milo for the most part. We also attract hunters
> nationwide for our pheasants, quail, deer and wild turkeys. Most of us
> are biologically literate. I asked if he'd any problem with our locals
> about this and he said nobody had differed on this.
> I think most of the pressure has come from idelouges in the suburban
> counties. We may be rural but we're not ignorant.
> -- Mike Henry

I agree, Mike, rural people who are closer to the uncloseted realities
of life can be more realistic, 'down to earth' even than suburban folks
who can live in a somewhat invented world. Thank you for a touch of
reality.

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