Reply #65: KC Star: Evolution politics become personal

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TOPEKA — The vote may not come for months, but six of the 10 Kansas Board of Education members clearly are prepared to inject criticism of evolution into curriculum standards.

Also apparent is that the ongoing debate has frayed relationships between the board’s conservative and moderate wings. At a board meeting Wednesday, a heated debate over the teaching of evolution centered on personalities as much as science education.

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The four moderate members said the school board is not qualified to render scientific judgments, and they accused the others of mingling faith with public school standards. They called recent hearings into the teaching of evolution a sham.

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In the newsletter, Morris said she takes biblical creation accounts literally and that evolution is an impossible “fairy tale.” She called Gamble “continually disruptive and rude.”

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