Board Backs More Evolution Criticism
The State Board of Education voted 6 to 4 in Topeka to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote.
The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language now favored by the board comes from advocates of intelligent design.
The intelligent design concept holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause.
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