Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/178/story_17877_1.html

On November 9, 2005 Religion News Service reporte, "A sharply divided Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 Tuesday to adopt new science standards that call for taking a critical view of evolution.

The vote ended an acerbic 10-month debate that pitted advocates of a theory called intelligent design against major science organizations, with the board's conservative majority leading the push to question the theory of evolution first advanced by Charles Darwin... Under the standards, Kansas students will study not only 'the best evidence for modern evolutionary theory,' but also 'areas where scientists are raising scientific criticisms of that theory.'

While advocates of intelligent design pushed for the changes, 'these standards neither mandate nor prohibit teaching about this scientific disagreement,' according to the document... The debate could continue to dominate Kansas politics as four of the six board members who supported the new standards are up for re-election in 2006."