From Slashdot (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1728): “The Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 to allow science students in public schools to hear materials critical of evolution in biology classes. The new curriculum mentions that theories of life arising from similar building-block molecules through purely random processes can be challenged by recent findings in the fossil record and by molecular biology.”
From the perspective of education and democracy, this is not good. I don’t think that the constitution or American law has a place for this. Personally, I think that is the correct way to teach science (not just the how but the why), but America has chosen a different path. They either need to stick to it or change their entire philosophy of religion-state. More of my views on this on my personal blog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog).
