Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Unvarnished Truth
An editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer minces no words in discussing the Kansas science standards battle:
Oh, they're not going to like that in Seattle.
The old, junked standards were a pack of misleading falsehoods. They portrayed Darwinian evolution as a "controversy" threatened by imaginary "new research." And that's just wrong. Evolution is the bedrock of biology, richly witnessed by fossil records and experiment, accepted by almost all scientists.
In a widely ridiculed move, Kansas' now-repealed standards redefined science to include non-natural explanations.
Oh, they're not going to like that in Seattle.
