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Kansas Adopts New Science Standards

Posted by Zonk on from the in-line-with-the-rest-of-us dept.

porcupine8 writes "The Kansas State Board of Education has changed the state science standards once again, this time to take out language questioning evolution. This turnaround comes fast on the heels of the ouster given this past election to the ultra-conservative Board members who originally introduced the language. 'Science' has also been re-redefined as 'a human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations' (the word 'natural' had been previously stricken from the definition). If you'd like to see the new standards, a version showing all additions and deletions is available from the KS DOE's website (PDF)."

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  1. God Hates Kansas by ReidMaynard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look at all the tornados.

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    1. Re:God Hates Kansas by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

      Look at all the tornados.

      That doesn't prove God hates Kansas. It just proves that he wants to transport their homes to magical lands occupied by midgets.

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  2. Re:The future of America by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like his comment about if we come from monkeys, does that gives us the right to act like them?

    Considering the way Creationists jump up and down and fling poo every time the word Evolution is used, I'd say his question has already been answered.

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  3. Re:I just don't get it... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heresy! We have a perfectly rational explanation. 6000 years ago God created the Earth. There were people on it and those people were bad. So He caused a flood and wiped out everyone but Noah's family. And now, generations later, we're the result of Noah's sons and daughters having sex with each other to repopulate the Earth. Now whether you believe in God or not, I'm sure you can agree that this is the most sensible explanation for Kansas.

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  4. Re:Eternal Vigilance by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is easier for a pillar of salt to pass through the eye of a camel than to be out on a limb without a paddle.

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  5. Re:Eternal Vigilance by inviolet · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what you're saying it that you're the retarded offspring of five monkeys that had butt sex with a retarded fish-squirrel?

    No. he is saying that he is the retarded offspring of five monkeys that had regular sex with a retarded fish-squirrel.

    Apparently, our next task in Kansas is to amend the sex education textbooks.

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