What do you get when you deny science and teach occultism?
An unthinking, tithing, tax-paying populace of ignorant third-world workers
who can't compete in a world marketplace along side people from other
countries who were actually taught science.
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May 5, 2005
Kansas Begins Hearings on Diluting Teaching of Evolution
By JODI WILGOREN
TOPEKA, May 5 -
In the first of three daylong hearings characterized here as the direct
descendant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a parade of Ph.D.'s testified
today about the flaws they find in Darwin's theory of evolution,
transforming a small auditorium into a forum on one of the most
controversial questions in education and politics:
How to teach about the origin of life?
The hearings by the Kansas State Board of Education- one part science
lesson, one part political theater - were set off by proposed changes to
Kansas's science standards intended to bring a more critical approach to
the teaching of Darwinism. The sessions provided perhaps the
highest-profile stage yet for the emerging movement known as intelligent
design, which asserts that life is so intricately complex that an architect
must be behind it. Critics argue that intelligent design has no basis in
science and is another iteration of creationism.
Scientists who defend Darwinism are boycotting the hearings, called by the
state school board's conservative majority. Nonetheless, a lawyer
representing them peppered the other side's experts with queries both
profound and personal.
"Can you tell us, sir, how old you believe the Earth is?" the lawyer, Pedro
Irigonegaray, asked William S. Harris, a chemist, who helped write the
proposed changes to the state standards.
"I don't know," Dr. Harris replied. "I think it's probably really old."
If the state board adopts the new standards, as expected, Kansas will join
Ohio, which took a similar step in 2002, in requiring that students be
taught that there is controversy about evolution. Legislators in Alabama
and Georgia have introduced bills this season to allow teachers to
challenge Darwin in class.
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