maybe if i stopped reading the news i would not have this little teeth grinding problem.
yesterday Kansas damned its impressionable little young minds to ignorance.

"TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 8 - The fiercely split Kansas Board of Education voted 6 to 4 on Tuesday to adopt new science standards that are the most far-reaching in the nation in challenging Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom."

"Among the most controversial changes was a redefinition of science itself, so that it would not be explicitly limited to natural explanations. "

but...pardon my cognitive dissonence...how do you change the definition of science? from my understanding (a silly little bachelors degree, much personal research, and a few months in a science ph.d. program) science is limited to natural explanations.

"John G. West of the Discovery Institute, a conservative research organization that promotes intelligent design, said Kansas now had "the best science standards in the nation.""

on what fucking basis? this man may have two ph.d.s but guess what they are in: biology? no. anthropology? no. any broad field of science whatsoever? try government and communications.
does it bother anyone else that the president of this increasingly influential group has no training in science when the good ol' d.i. is determining what is being taught in science classes?
it is just so infuriating to think that these decisions to really limit science education are being made due to a basic national deficit in understanding science. it is likely that if our public education system provided a better foundation for understanding biology, evolution would not seem like that far-fetched of an idea.
here is a start. the definition of evolution is: a change in gene frequencies in a population over time.
is that so hard to understand? and over time wouldn't you expect some major changes to occur in form?
well. here's to you, kansas, for robbing your youth of a decent education. you couldn't just introduce this debate into a philosophy class where it belongs. well. actually the debate belongs nowhere because no sane biologist disagrees on evolution as a driving force of biology.
at least there is some hope in dover, pa