TOPEKA, Kan. - (KRT) - Nearly every change evolution critics had suggested was endorsed by three members of the State Board of Education Thursday evening.
But there still weren't enough criticisms of evolution in the new draft of science standards to satisfy board member Connie Morris, who suggested using the transcript of last month's hearings on evolution to add more.
"I just feel like there needs to be more there because that is the crux of this effort: getting the criticisms of Darwinian evolution into the standards and into the classroom," Morris said.
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It's unfortunate that the debate over Darwinism, within which there are broad areas of potential agreement between scientific and religious authorities, should be pushed into the political arena where accommodations are difficult. I fault the hyper-darwinst extremists like Richard Dawkins who insist on excluding all possibility of God's existence. Of course scientistic extremists have called forth equally extreme responses from within religious communities. And so the debate degenerates into diatribes and crass political maneuvering.
Faugh!
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