Re: paleonet BadNewsID

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/9/2005 9:13:51 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
swalker@gly.uga.edu writes:

>>TOPEKA, Kan. -- Critics of evolution won a big victory in  Kansas with 
the adoption of new public school standards that defy mainstream  views 
on the mystery of mankind's origins.

The standards, approved  yesterday by the state Board of Education, cast 
doubt on Darwinism and  redefine the word "science" so that it's not 
limited to the search for  natural explanations of phenomena.<<

Once again the Kansas Board of  Education has voted to permit the creationist 
"intelligent design" fable to be  taught in their public schools as viable 
biological science. Once again, Kansas  has shown itself to be the most backward 
state in the Union. I am profoundly  disappointed that superstition and 
gullibility have managed to gain this strong  a foothold in the public curriculum, 
that what is taught as science has been  decided not by adherence to 
principles of evidence and logic but by religious  dogma and political whim. A sad day 
indeed, as the United States continues its  slow backward slide into darkness 
and ignorance.