Evolution: a thought

Conservative Christians and Intelligent Design. Don't these people have anything better to do with their time than attack a fundamental theory and prevent their children from learning one of the most engaging keystones of scientific discovery?? Why is it that people are repelled by things they do not understand? An academic war over teaching evolution??? If I were a parent right now, I think I'd seriously investigate the option of home schooling.

from CNN.com:

"Now, the new Kansas standards, which outline what teachers should teach and test on, leave evolutionary principles in the curriculum but insert phrasing that encourages students to question their validity. The standards also delete certain text about how science is defined.
"The stakes are high," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. "If Kansas gets away with it ... I anticipate that in every state where science standards are up for revision, we are going to be fighting another battle."
Efforts to undermine evolution instruction have also been seen in Michigan, Kentucky, Georgia and elsewhere. And one key case was being tested in court this week in Pennsylvania, where a group of parents sued the Dover Area School Board because teachers had been ordered to tell biology students that the theory of evolution is not established fact."


[kudos to Pennsylvania parents for showing some gumption and resisting this rediculous BS.
It's ashame you have to sue to have your voice heard these days. Though evolution is called a theory in the sense that we do not know exactly how it occurs, there is undeniable proof that organisms evolve. This is most certainly established fact. Urgh, anti-scientist crap makes me irritable. Science is fun! Parents are going to ruin it for their children. What a shame.]