Kansas Board OKs Evolution Knock fantasy and myth to take over schools.
It seem that Mr. Bush comments on Aug. 1 did the desirable goal for the pushing of the creation myth as part of the school curriculum at least in
Kansas where the debates about Creationism vs Evolution has been heating up.
Not since the Scopes trials of 1925 has been a fight about evolution vs schools systems in this country that will modify the way our children are
taught sciences in schools again.
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Now for the delight of creationist all over the nation Kansas fight has come to a decision that will impact the rest of the nation and how science
will be taught.
(CBS/AP) The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the
standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote.
Who should we thank for this decision? Not other that Mr. Bush opinion of how Intelligent design should be part of children education.
This is what we get when “politics get mix with religion”
Kansas has been fighting the teaching of evolution for a long time, the school boards even took from their science books any references to Evolution
from their books in 1999. They got ridiculized for that and they later had to reverse it.
The school board and religious rights explain that they are not trying to bring religion in the schools but that they are tying to demonstrate that is
more to the natural world that just evolution.
So now we have the “unnatural and magical” to fight the scientific theory of evolution in schools.
I wonder how 4th grades are to take that “Unseen forces may have made the earth and humans” to me this is the “preamble to religious discussion
in the schools”
Occurs this statement from Mr. Bush done on Aug 1 may have the desirable effect to start the “reconstruction and challenge” to the Science
curriculum and evolution in other states in the nation.
"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Mr. Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought
to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
``With the president endorsing it, at the very least it makes Americans who have that position more respectable, for lack of a better phrase,'' said
Gary Bauer, a Christian conservative leader. ``It's not some backwater view. It's a view held by the majority of Americans.''
Opponents of intelligent design, which a Kansas professor once called ``creationism in a cheap tuxedo,'' say there is no legitimate debate. They see
the case increasingly as a political battle that threatens to weaken science teaching in a nation whose students are falling behind.
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Bush's comments were ``irresponsible,'' said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He said the
president, by suggesting students hear two viewpoints, ``doesn't understand that one is a religious viewpoint and one is a scientific
viewpoint.''
Obviously when it comes to division of state and religion Mr. Bush been a born again Christian have not clue of what it means.
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A final vote on the issue will be as early as next month or as later as October or November.
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