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Last year, Holloway and five other conservatives on the Kansas school board voted to downplay evolution in the state's science standards. All over the globe and on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, the world alternated between laughter and outrage. Kansas was made to look stupid. Very stupid.
So, early this month, my cousin's wife, like many other voters in the state of Kansas, rushed to the polls. It was time to redeem our state. And when moderates defeated Holloway and two of the other six conservative school board members who cast the controversial votes against evolution...
On TV, in the newspapers and throughout homes all over the country, there is a feeling that order and reason have been restored to the Midwest. No matter who wins in this fall's general elections, the candidates promise that evolution will be reinstated in its full form to Kansas...
In the beginning, contrary to preliminary reports by some major news organizations, Kansas school board members did not outlaw evolution. Nor did they erase all traces of the subject from state science standards.
In a six-page "Position Paper on the Teaching of Evolution," LeVake pledges to teach evolution while also taking "an honest look at the difficulties and inconsistencies of the theory." He lists examples of irreducible complexity in nature for which, he says, Darwin has no explanation, such as the eggshell...