Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design

kwietman writes "The Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 to allow science students in public schools to hear materials critical of evolution in biology classes. The new curriculum mentions that theories of life arising from similar building-block molecules through purely random processes can be challenged by recent findings in the fossil record and by molecular biology. Not all were happy, however. 'This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that,' said board member Janet Waugh. The new standards will be used in statewide standardized testing; the students are still expected to know 'basic evolutionary principles.' As part of the decision, the Board of Education also went so far as to redefine science itself, saying that it is 'no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.'"

Comments

Re:Darwinism

[nerdb0t]

who are the freaking morons that modded this 5 insightful?

kansas schools *are* taught about natural selection, and this decision doesn't change that. RTFA.

so the anonymous coward parent is either being inflamatory with misleading propoganda, or is stupid - and so are the modders.

Re:You are only hurting yourself you know....

[johnnyb]

"I would even suggest the idea to be absurd, since the defining characteristic of intelligence is complex behavior, intelligence must be complex."

I don't think that complex behavior requires a complex makeup.

"Do you have any examples of such a creature?"

I have faith in God, whom I believe to be at least somewhat along these lines, but I do not have an example that would satisfy skeptics.