Welcome to Kansas, ca. 1200 AD

Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back in time to the state of Kansas, USA. Yes, the religious right has succeeded in its goal to take over that state's board of education and change what's being taught to kids from scientific material to faith-based material.

Not only that, they also rewrote the definition of science.

Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.

The 6-4 vote was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.

Critics of the new language charged that it was an attempt to inject God and creationism into public schools in violation of the separation of church and state.

"This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that," said board member Janet Waugh, a Democrat.

She's so right. Right now, the whole world laughs and pities them.

The new standards say high school students must understand major evolutionary concepts. But they also declare that the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.

In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Incredible. I feel bad for all the sane parents still in the state of Kansas who will see their kids' brains sullied by these insane theories. Their only chance to make things right is to go vote next year and vote Democrat, kick those morons out of office, and change everything back to what it was (and what it should be,) once and for all.