Evolution foes seek changes in Missouri

[Thom Little]

By Tim Hoover
Kansas City Star
Friday, Dec. 2, 2005


While debate rages in Kansas over teaching “intelligent design,” similar proposals in Missouri have yet to grow legs.

For several years, bills in the Missouri legislature to require the teaching of intelligent design or mandate that textbooks criticize evolution have gone nowhere because lawmakers have resisted efforts to dictate teaching standards and materials.

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But Missouri critics of evolution are encouraged by the Kansas Board of Education’s recent adoption of science standards that call for criticism of evolution. Opponents say the move opens the door for the teaching of intelligent design.

“I think Kansas is doing the right thing,” said Rep. Cynthia Davis, a St. Louis County Republican who last year filed a bill that would have required biology textbooks to include “critical analysis of origins.”




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