Kansas Comes Back To The Land Of Common Sense

8:22 pm EST February 13th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Amen. Yes, amen.

The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule.

The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of “intelligent design,” who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.

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9 Responses to “Kansas Comes Back To The Land Of Common Sense”

  1. mdhåtter says:
    February 13, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    they have been touched by his noodly appendage

    rAmen.

  2. RedBastardGod says:
    February 13, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    The price is too high to pay for the state to endorse nonsense.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    February 13, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    mdhatter: I hear there’s been an increase in pirates as well.

  4. JohnR says:
    February 13, 2007 at 11:42 pm

    Oliver: I guess there’s hope yet for global warming, given the correlation between global temperature and pirates…

  5. ann says:
    February 14, 2007 at 9:12 am

    I can travel to Kansas again? Family ruled out Kansas and Wyoming last summer on our trip west.

  6. Ray says:
    February 14, 2007 at 9:25 am

    wow, next thing you know Kansas will accept electricity

  7. Ray says:
    February 14, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Wow!! Next thing you know some of Kansas’s religious leaders will be accepting electricity into their own homes. Those cutting edge bad boys…..

  8. b says:
    February 14, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    The political mood of the state is really more of a plains liberatarianism than a Mississippi conservatism. (It’s the home of Alf Landon after all.) The GOP party dynamics haven’t allowed moderates to win any primaries for years. But the times are changing. The fine people of Kansas have elected a Democratic governor, leut. governor, attorney general, and two U.S. representatives.

    The funny thing on the ground in Kansas is that the religious right has controlled the GOP party machinery for about 20 years. As a result of some hard work by Gov. Sebelius, moderate Republican candidates are switching to the Democratic Party and getting elected (i.e., the L.Gov. and A.G.). This change is also reflected in some of the school board elections where the batsh*t crazy right wingers are losing to more moderate folks who believe in evolution.

    In short, Democrats are making a mistake if we continue to write off Kansas in the future.

  9. LMMatthews says:
    February 15, 2007 at 11:31 am

    It’s about time.