A return to the evolution of the elimination of the teaching of evolution in Kansas, Arkansas's younger and dumber sister.
In Kansas, conservatives now hold 6 of the 10 seats on the State Board of Education. All of them favor teaching theories that compete with or criticize evolution, said Jack Krebs, a member of the State Science Standards Writing Committee and vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science.
In 1999, the Kansas board voted to erase any mention of evolution from the state science curriculum, opening the door for the teaching of creationism. That was reversed in 2001, after three board members who supported the move were defeated in a Republican primary. Kathy Martin, a newly elected member of the board who favors teaching alternatives to evolution, said the board would probably take a different route this time, like introducing the teaching of "intelligent design," a theory that holds that the development of the universe and earth was guided at each step by an "intelligent agent."
Source: New York Times
And meanwhile in Missouri, the bastard son of the Confederate States of America.
"It's like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn't want to go," [State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri] added. "I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don't want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we're going to take it back."
Source: New York Times
Poignant.
