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Evolution and science are under attack again in Kansas, and academics there and
around the country are refusing to participate in state Board of Education
hearings designed to debate the concepts.
The head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science became the
latest to beg off, saying in a letter to the board Monday that ?rather than
contribute to science education, [the hearings] will most likely serve to
confuse the public about the nature of the scientific enterprise.?
Kansas has become a central battleground for a spreading dispute over the
teaching of evolution and of alternative explanations, like creationism and
intelligent design, for how the natural world came about. Although the Kansas
fight is focused on whether and how those concepts are taught in the state?s
elementary and secondary schools, ?the implications for science at the
university level are really pretty dramatic,? says Steve Case, a research
assistant professor at the University of Kansas.
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Read it at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/12/evolution
J. Spaceman
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