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11/20/05

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Students, parents fret as Kansas' new science standards take root

The Kansas City Star picks up on a story by Garance Burke of AP, who writes on parents and students fretting over the new Kansas State Board science standards.

It is truly amazing how muddled people's thinking is on this issue. The science standards set forth in Kansas actually now fit in better with the standards in over 40 other states.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if people could just sit down and dialogue in a cordial, gentle, respectful manner instead of setting up strawman arguments and doling out ad hominems attacks? The above usually comes from the Darwinist's side, but not exclusively.

Instead of Kansas "being the laughingstock" of the US, which the other side claims is occurring, the truth is Kansas is falling into line with a majority of the rest of the states, and is taking out a narrow definition of science. That being, that science only looks for the right kind of explanations (materialistic), not the right explanations. Why in other science endeavors, criminology, SETI, archeology is intelligent agent causation allowed, yet in biology it is arbitrarily disallowed? That's the question you should continuously be asking the other side, and demanding an answer.

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