RUEFUL creationists in the Midwest last week could have echoed Dorothy’s “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”. Not the Kansas they had made, anyway.
In a state primary election on 1 August, voters ousted two school board members who opposed teaching evolution. One of them, Connie Morris, a former teacher, has described evolution as “a nice bedtime story”. Morris lost to Sally Cauble, a teacher favouring the teaching of evolution.
The result guarantees that the state school board will swing in January 2007 from one that opposes the teaching of evolution to one on which it…
