Artifact Seven

Jacques Steinberg."School Districts in Kansas Split on Evolution Ruling". 25 Aug 99. 23 Jan 2007. http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/Censorship/Kansas.Evolution.html.BU

Although you hear a lot about censorship in media, one thing that you don't hear a lot about is censorship in schools. In Topeka, Kansas, four biology teachers fought the Kansas Board of Education to remove any mention of evolution out of the state's science curriculum and standardized tests. 200 miles away, in Pratt, Kansas, the local school board president favors the idea of teaching evolution because she hoped that it would lead to ideas of creationism against it.

The main fight brewing among the many school districts in Kansas are between the two theories of how life started. The Darwinism theory, where evolution explains how man evolved from monkeys, to the creationist point of view where a divine being such as God in the bible created everything from the universe to man. People believe that evolution was just as Charles Darwin explained it, a theory. Later, it was decided that both were allowed to be taught because according to Steve Angel, a chemistry professor who is the president of the Auburn-Washburn school board in Topeka, " All science is theory". Now, evolution is accepted in most schools because it explains some of life's mysteries in a sensible way, while some schools still believe in creationalism.