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Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
The fight over Intelligent Design being taught in America's classrooms moves one step closer to a 'done deal'. The 'republican' dominated school board in Kansas has ruled in favour of compulsory teaching of Intelligent Design right along side of the (Theory?) of Evolution. Here you have a very thinly disguised creationist THEORY of how man/woman came to be. I heard one reporter on TV describe evolution as the theory that states man evolved from the apes.....definitely not true and the thick-headed reporter should have known better. ID has not been proven...it is just a wooly headed assumption. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory, meaning that it is the best scientific explanation yet as to how man evolved and it is 'open' to refining and filling in the gaps......scientific theories are like that, they can be slightly changed but the theory itself is an irrefutable truth. Like the THEORY OF GRAVITY. It is now sometimes referred to as the Law of Gravity and the theory of Evolution should be refrred to as the LAW of EVOLUTION!

Here is what 'Balloonjuice' had to say on the subject in his blog:

Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
The 6-4 vote was a victory for “intelligent design” advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.
Critics of the new language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and state.
All six of those who voted for the new standards were Republicans. Two Republicans and two Democrats voted no.
“This is a sad day. We’re becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that,” said board member Janet Waugh, a Kansas City Democrat…
In 1999, the board eliminated most references to evolution. Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould said that was akin to teaching “American history without Lincoln.” Bill Nye, the “Science Guy” of children’s television, called it “harebrained” and “nutty.” And a Washington Post columnist imagined God saying to the Kansas board members: “Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?”
Two years later, after voters replaced three members, the board reverted to evolution-friendly standards. Elections in 2002 and 2004 changed the board’s composition again, making it more conservative.
The latest vote likely to bring fresh national criticism to Kansas and cause many scientists to see the state as backward.
Many scientists and other critics contend creationists repackaged old ideas in new, scientific-sounding language to get around a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1987 against teaching the biblical story of creation in public schools.
The Kansas board’s action is part of a national debate. In Pennsylvania, a judge is expected to rule soon in a lawsuit against the Dover school board’s policy of requiring high school students to learn about intelligent design in biology class. In August, President Bush endorsed teaching intelligent design alongside evolution.
In an effort to fight back against intelligent-design advocates, a grass-roots group calling itself Campaign to Defend the Constitution said Tuesday that it was launching a $200,000 online ad campaign “to combat a threat posed by the religious right to American democracy.”
“This is a significant attack on science,” said Jack Krebs, vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science. “They really are advancing a sectarian religious view. They’re treading on constitutional grounds.”

Don't get any wooly-headed IDers!