Today, at least, nothing. In a curiously intense summer primary contest for the state Board of Education, the day was won by people who believe that the science standards should reflect, you know, actual science. Their opponents were a cabal of Intelligent Design boosters. There’s a nice wrap-up at Forbes.com and a more gung-ho, in-your-face summary at Thoughts from Kansas.
The Forbes piece quotes a Kansan named Ryan Cole, “I feel like if you give two sides of something, most people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds.” I wonder how many ID proponents would be OK if the history course started teaching Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code version of early Christianity, because after all, millions of people have invested in it.
Yay for the good guys that will put Kansas back into the mainstream on science education. But boo for all of us that we, a supposedly advanced and enlightened nation, need to fight this same battle over and over again.
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