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rachmaninoff
The state's school board voted 6-4 today for new teaching standards promoting Intelligent Design language.
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2005/11/08/kansasschoolboard.html"
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2005/11/08/kansasschoolboard.html"
Supporters of the new standards said they will promote academic freedom. "It gets rid of a lot of dogma that's being taught in the classroom today," said board member John Bacon, an Olathe Republican.
The new standards say high school students must understand major evolutionary concepts. But they also declare that the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.
In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.
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