DUers from Kansas need your help.

[proud2BlibKansan]

This state is full of bright and inquisitive folks who adamantly oppose what the state board of ed is doing. It is incredibly disheartening to see all the make fun of Kansas posts here on DU on the last few days.

We KNOW these board members are kooks. Here is a great article about the most vocal member:
http://milkriverarchive.blogspot.com/2005/08/com-unmasking-of-connie-morris.html

Here is a statement from our Democratic governor regarding the change in the science standards:
“This is just the latest in a series of troubling decisions by the Board of Education. If we’re going to continue to bring high-tech jobs to Kansas and move our state forward, we need to strengthen science standards, not weaken them. Stronger public schools ought to be the mission of the Board of Education, and it’s time they got down to the real business of strengthening Kansas schools.”

Here is a LTTE from today's Kansas City paper:

Evidence is ample

Tuesday was a sad day for Kansas.

Yes, there is controversy surrounding evolution, but only among non-scientists. Those who reject evolution present no arguments scientists haven’t heard (and adequately countered) again and again and have no special knowledge that scientists have overlooked.

Organic evolution is so well established that to allow room for doubt is to misrepresent science. Evolution is supported by population biology, comparative anatomy, cell biology, biochemistry, genetics and artificial breeding, and by observations of how bacteria and viruses respond (over time) to antibiotics. Computer algorithms invoking simple Darwinian rules are being used to solve a wide range of previously intractable problems. Important biochemical molecules (including RNA and DNA) have been improved in astonishing ways in test-tube experiments using Darwinian principles. Any one of these mutually corroborating approaches could stand by itself as strong evidence for evolution. Together, they are indistinguishable from proof.

Non-scientists have no business meddling in the content of science classes. Intelligent design is not science.

Congratulations to those on the board who voted sanely.

Bryce M. Hand
Emeritus Professor of Geology
Syracuse University
Syracuse, N.Y.

http://blogs.kansascity.com/unfettered_letters/kansas/


If you want to make fun of Kansas, go to some other site that is more likely to be frequented by idiot fundies who promote creationism. We DUers from Kansas need your help promoting the viewpoints expressed by our governor and the professor from Syracuse.

Thanks :hi: