EVOLUTION is once more under attack in Kansas schools from what pro-science groups have branded a creationist “show trial”.
Six conservative Christians on the state’s 10-member board of education want state school standards to admit alternatives to evolution. This week public hearings in Topeka are being concluded, at which advocates of “intelligent design” argued that life is too complex to have arisen entirely by natural processes, and so requires a designer.
The US prohibits teaching certain religions in state schools, but supporters of intelligent design claim it is science. Even so, a witness in Topeka admitted that the Judaeo-Christian God…
