Not in Kansas anymore

Local battles to force fundamentalist creationism into public schools are evolving into a national fight~
By ANDREW GUMBEL
It’s easy, from the comparative safety of the West Coast, to make light of the recent evolution hearings before the Kansas State Board of Education. Easy to laugh off their attempts to introduce God into the high school biology curriculum as the latest eccentric ravings of a bunch of anti-modern heartland hicks. But here are a few reasons to take their initiative in deadly earnest.
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