Intelligent design rears its head

摘要

Sometime within the next few months, the Kansas Board of Education will decide whether to allow a form of creation-ism to be taught in the state's schools. It seems likely to do so. The proposed curriculum changes have been given preliminary approval by the board and were writ-'ten after hearings dominated by anti-evolutionists. The changes, which affect the standards used in statewide science tests, include adding the word "may" to the assertion that "gradual changes...over many generations may have resulted in variations among populations and species." They would tell students that "in many cases the fossil record is not consistent with gradual, unbroken sequences postulated by biological evolution." And they would call the notion that one species evolved from another "controversial ...based on inferences from indirect or circumstantial evidence."