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Having been rather busy lately I haven’t commented yet on Kansas’ decision to legislate Intelligent Design into the science classroom. What is there really for a thinking person to say on this subject? I mean, other than "Nice job, moronsTracked on: Neural Gourmet (207.44.240.10) at 2005 11 17 14:27:57 - This is 2005?
And in the world's leading nation this happen? Unbelievable....Tracked on: brilliantdays.com (205.196.210.14) at 2005 11 10 15:30:42 - Intelligent Design Now Taught In Kansas
On Tuesday, the Board of Education in Kansas voted 6-4 in favor of discussing the "flaws" in evolutionary theory to students. This means that Intelligent Design, which is the theory that the universe is too complex and a higher power...Tracked on: Business Logs (65.98.70.58) at 2005 11 10 09:50:07 - Kansas residents proud to be products of incest
The Kansas Education Board today voted to support the teaching of Intelligent Design, or, as it is called in the scientific community, the "Blame it on God" theory, in school classrooms alongside evolution. The theory of Intelligent Design, which bas...Tracked on: The Renegade of Junk (72.9.234.70) at 2005 11 09 14:31:21 - No Child Left Behind
Clearly, the entire state of Kansas has planned to completely disregard the federally manadated standards of education as delineated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002:Tracked on: Axiom (72.9.234.70) at 2005 11 09 11:05:42 - Goodbye Kansas
Pharyngula tells it like it is. For the next few years, a lot of schoolkids are going to get taught slippery twaddle—instead of learning what scientists actually say about biology, they're going to get the phony pseudoscience of ideologues and...Tracked on: Cynical-C Blog (66.33.213.28) at 2005 11 09 09:59:25 - Kansas Enters A New Dark Age
I thought I'd write at length about the Kansas Board of Education decision to abandon teaching science in public schools ...the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.but on something like this PZ Myers is going to be far ahead of the curve:Rewriting the definition of...Tracked on: Modulator (63.247.135.223) at 2005 11 09 09:55:35 - More on Kansas Dumbassery
(I’ve done so many entries on the whole “evolution in schools” thing that you’d think I would be getting tired of it. But, no. I am fuelled by sweet, sweet rage.) Dan Gilmour points to the Guardian article on the Kansas deci...Tracked on: Homo Sum (63.111.22.74) at 2005 11 09 08:18:18 - Don't Hire Any Lab Techs from Kansas
Because they might have been taught that the mutating cancer cell from your pap smear is God's Intelligent Design. See also PZ Myers....Tracked on: Bloodless Coup (63.66.160.28) at 2005 11 09 08:15:12 - Good news, bad news
It's a bit more than four hours after the polls closed in California, and it was looking like I could go to bed happy ... but then I flipped over to Pharyngula, and found this ...Tracked on: Rhosgobel: Radagast's Home (72.9.234.70) at 2005 11 09 02:33:28 - Los fundamentalistas toman Kansas
Finalmente, la debacle se produjo (noticia original): Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. The...Tracked on: Las penas del Agente Smith (66.162.134.137) at 2005 11 09 02:11:06 - With deepest sympathies
Science education in Kansas.Tracked on: Skeptico (66.151.149.25) at 2005 11 09 00:19:17 - New science standards approved by Kansas BoE
Unfortunately, as predicted, the State Board of Education for my own state of Kansas has approved the new state standards that impede the teaching of evolution and promote creationism. The new standards read as follows:...Tracked on: StructuredThought (65.19.157.20) at 2005 11 08 23:12:25