The Kansas Board of Education backs “Intelligent (sic) Design,” as a “conservative Republican majority [on the Board] overruled a 26-member science committee and turned aside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association.”
It’s funny, I(sic)D proponents claim they are not injecting religion into schools while at the same time their central claim is that life is too complicated to have arisen without a “higher power.” Higher power? Helloooo? I don’t care whether it’s Jesus on the cross or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s religion. I don’t care much whether someone has a failure of the imagination to understand how complex structures can arise from simple rules, but it is so wrong to indoctrinate our children out of their natural curiosity and capacity for critical thinking: if they can’t understand something, it’s obviously non-understandable and must be God’s business but not ours.
“This is a sad day, not only for Kansas kids, but for Kansas,” said Janet Waugh, who voted against the new standards. “We’re becoming a laughingstock, not only of the nation, but of the world.”
Yep.
