Dawn of the Geeks

AAAS Backs Groups’ Copyright Move Against Kansas School Board

With misinformation about evolution and the nature of science at issue in proposed Kansas science education standards, AAAS strongly supports two national science organizations that announced today they are unable to allow use of their copyrighted material in the standards.

AAAS also said it would be more than willing, through its Project 2061 science-literacy initiative, to help the Kansas State Board of Education improve the pending standards.

“AAAS is extremely concerned that the proposed standards misrepresent both the content and the standing of evolution as a scientific organizing principle,” said Alan I. Leshner, the association’s chief executive officer.

AAAS, which provided advice during the drafting of the standards, is eager to help craft appropriate language on evolution so the state’s schoolchildren are not confused about the subject and the nature of science.

For many months, national science groups have been urging Kansas officials to revise the draft standards. The standards both single out evolution as a controversial theory, despite the wealth of evidence supporting it, and delete a previous reference to science as a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena.

There is no “wealth of evidence” supporting evolution. There is a wealth of evidence that shows that things change over time. This does nothing to disprove Creationism or Intelligent Design. The key doctrine of evolution is that species evolve into other species (man and apes evolved from a common ancestor). There’s no definitive evidence to support this. And as such, evolution is a fairy tale, a religion. This is why those who blindly accept evolution are throwing a temper tantrum and blocking their literature from being used in a school system that dares to challenge them. Their position is indefensible. Kansas was being fair by trying to teach two sides to an issue but some evolutionists aparantly are too childish to be able to deal with that.

Which is fine I think. Kansas should just throw evolution out of the school system entirely and tell their students if they want to learn about it, they can look it up on-line. Schools can’t teach everything. Schools can instead just teach the science that things adapt to survive and cut the religious part of evolution out entirely. Adaptation is NOT Evolution. Why waste everyone’s time by indoctrinating students to believe that humans and apes have a common ancestor when they could be far more productive teaching real science; adaptation?

Leave the “where did we come from?” question to the philosophy courses where it belongs.