Kansas State (or is it Kansas University?) has opened a

[RoBear]

two-year exhibit on evolution. Almost in minutes some right-wing fundie claimed it was "in-your-face evangelism" by the evolutionists.

Too stupid to see they (fundamentalists) have been in all our faces for quite a few years now (biggest surge has been since Reagan and his phoney fundamentalism).

Let the Kansas bashing begin...

[yellowcanine]

1. A university has an evolution exhibit? How shocking.

[sakabatou]

2. Can't take truth...

[atommom]

3. It is KU. Here's one of many recent articles on the exhibit.

The questioning could become more intense. Choate said the Sternberg plans to unveil a new evolution exhibit next year. And the Kansas University Museum of Natural History in November will open “Explore Evolution,” a traveling exhibit that examines how evolution influences ongoing scientific research.

“Explore Evolution,” the new KU exhibit, will look at how evolutionary theory is used in current scientific research — to explain changes in HIV, the adaptation of Galapagos finches and genetic ties between humans and chimpanzees. KU is one of six museums across the Midwest that helped sponsor the project.

The museum will also offer visitors a handout explaining how evolution differs from creationism and religion.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/sep/22/evolution_teaching_debate_makes_its_way_kansas_his/?evolution

And let's not bash Kansans without giving some credit to the scientists and museums on the front lines of the debate.

Jordan Yochim and Leonard Krishtalka, :yourock:

[RoBear]

5. The Kansas-bashing remark was based on comments

the last time I posted regarded some inanity by the fundies in Kansas. My remark about Kansas-bashing was intended to be sarcastic.

[atommom]

8. I know.

I just wanted to remind people that we are not all ignorant RWers. :hi:

[GR]

4. Please Don't Confuse The Two...It's KU And There's A Fball Game Tomorrow..

they're arch rivals...

[RoBear]

7. As a Kansan I know the difference well...

I was just too lazy to look it up. Maybe I should apply to Faux to be a reporter, then I can just deal in vague "information" all the time...

:spank:

[jackstraw45]

6. Something tells me the churches won't be busing members...

to this exhibit like they did to Passion of the Christ...

[atommom]

9. Some churches DO bus members to exhibits like this.

But the museum has said that they don't intend to argue with people who are there solely to disrupt things. I think that's the right approach.

[Toots]

10. Wonder what they say about Atomic Theory

It is after all only a theory..:shrug: Who did Hitler go after first, intellectuals or Jews? Can't have intellectualism running rampant in Amerika now can we?

[bmbmd]

11. Dr. Kenny Turner

was my dear friend growing up in west Texas. He took geology from my dad in college, and got his PhD in paleontology from KU. I believe he taught there for a number of years before his death-in those days, they had a wonderful archeology-geology-paleontology natural science department. Sounds like they still do.

[triguy46]

12. Don't know, but the KU Chancellor just released...

a scathing indictment of ID/Creationism, calling it a significant threat to the education of children in kansas and an obstacle to KU recruiting faculty who are skeptical of the religious inquisition currently being led by the kansas board of education. Good for him. KU has outstanding academic bona fides, and in the past their education system has been one of the best. However, through stealth candidates, and now blatent pandering to the fundies, local school boards and now the state board are under the spell of fundamentalism, and they periodically burn Darwin and believers at the stake.