On Tuesday, Kansas continued its devolution as the state Board of Education approved new science standards for the state’s public schools that — over the objections of scientists in the state and nationwide — question evolution and require that students be exposed to challenges to evolution, such as “intelligent design.”
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, all eight members up for re-election to the Dover, PA school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy.
The New York Times science pages have extensive coverage of the so-called “evoluation debate.
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