It's official. Science education in Kansas is beyond saving.

 

Screw it. The country needs fry cooks too.

 

Kansas school board redefines science

New standards question accuracy of evolutionary theory

 

Tuesday, November 8, 2005; Posted: 8:10 p.m. EST (01:10 GMT)

 

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- At the risk of re-igniting the same heated nationwide debate it sparked six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.

 

The 6-4 vote was a victory for "intelligent design" advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.

 

Critics of the language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and state.

 

All six of those who voted for the standards were Republicans. Two Republicans and two Democrats voted against them.

 

"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, a Kansas City Democrat.

 

. . . In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

 

Whole story here.

Well, you win some, you lose some.

 

In Dover, PA, the district that has given us this wonderful ID trial that has let so many little fun nuggets come out ("Of Pandas and People", the first ID text, literally changed the word "Creation" to "Intelligent Design" immediately after the 1987 court ruling on Creation Science, ID and Astrology both belong in schools according to Behe, the peer review on Behe's book was basically 2 phone calls)....

 

Guess what happened tonight in that district. Every single Democrat up for a School Board seat in Dover won. Every single race where an ID candidate was up against a pro-science candidate, the pro-science candidate won.

 

Results.