What happened in Kansas?
“Anti-evolution” curriculum likely to be overturned August 10, 2006 Last week’s school board primaries in Kansas have generated much news—and much confusion—about the teaching of “creationism” in Kansas schools and AiG’s stance on the matter.1 Although the popular press has gone to great lengths to show that the recent election pitted pro-evolution, pro-“science” candidates against those who backed the mandated instruction of creation in public schools, the election was nothing of the sort. Furthermore, it’s not the first time the media has intentionally misrepresented the issues surrounding the teaching of evolution in public schools (see Confusion in Kansas—evolution not outlawed!). The election centered on the Kansas State Board of Education curriculum, which was widely misrepresented as “anti-evolution,”2 though it was nothing of the sort. The curriculum did not promote the teaching of intelligent design or biblical creation; it only required that students, during their review of t
