Schools in Kansas to challenge Darwinism

[emad]

· State definition of science will include supernatural
· Pennsylvania town fights back at 'intelligent design'

Gary Younge in New York and Julian Borger in Washington
Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian


The Kansas board of education has narrowly voted to change the state's curriculum to question the validity of evolution, recommending that schools explore the "considerable scientific and public controversy" over the origins of life.

The 6-4 vote makes Kansas the fifth state in the country (after Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico and Pennsylvania) to adopt a curriculum that challenges Darwinism in favour of what supporters call "intelligent design", a revised version of creationism which argues that living things are too complex to have evolved solely by random mutation and natural selection.


The state education board went further, changing the definition of science, expanding it to include supernatural explanations of natural phenomena.

Both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association, whose material the state relies on, warned the board that they would revoke copyright privileges if the new curriculum was invoked.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1640156,00.html

[BR_Parkway]

1. Have them refer back to the Rev (whacko) Pat, who publically

stated how pissed off God is. Oh wait, this isn't religion. We're not trying to teach creation. We're, um, calling it something else cause regular people don't want us pushing our version down their throats.

[T Wolf]

2. I suggest that no high school graduate from this backward state

be accepted into college on the basis that they have not earned the required science credits for graduation.

[Zenlitened]

3. Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico and Pennsylvania have all adopted...

... ID-friendly curriculum?

[TlalocW]

4. Supernatural Explanation of Natural Phenomena?

Does that mean students can say that thunder is caused by God rolling potatoes down the basement floor like my grandma used to tell me?

TlalocW

[Creideiki]

5. Prove that it isn't!

So there! ;)