[asa] KS School Board election

To those interested in the current politics of evolution in Kansas,
the following article from the New York times gives some sense of
what is going on. The quotes from the anti-evolutionary advocates on
the board are representative of their comments.

The Discovery Institute has been promoting the standards, the efforts
of the anti-evolutionary board members, and Calvert and the IDNet.

Keith

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/us/01evolution.html?
_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin>

August 1, 2006
Evolution's Backers in Kansas Mount a Counterattack
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

KANSAS CITY, Kan., July 29 - God and Charles Darwin are not on the
primary
ballot in Kansas on Tuesday, but once again a contentious schools
election
has religion and science at odds in a state that has restaged a
three-quarter-century battle over the teaching of evolution.

Less than a year after a conservative Republican majority on the
State Board
of Education adopted rules for teaching science containing one of the
broadest challenges in the nation to Darwin's theory of evolution,
moderate
Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack. They
want to
retake power and switch the standards back to what they call
conventional
science.

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