Sunday, May 15, 2005
Newfangled Fads
Daniel Ruth, a columnist at the Tampa Tribune is relieved the science hearings took place in Kansas rather than his home state of Florida.
"... in the year 2005, Kansas education officials still were pondering whether the teaching of evolution might simply be one of those newfangled fads - like plumbing or fire. Over the years, the Kansas education establishment has struggled with how to approach evolution, going so far in 1999 as to delete references to the topic in school science standards, which would be a bit like prohibiting the use of tools in shop class."
