Topeka ? A resolution introduced today in the Kansas House urges schools to tell students that when it comes to evolution, students should be taught “the full range of scientific views that exist.”

Rep. Mary Pilcher-Cook, R-Shawnee, said her non-binding resolution was designed to promote “objectivity in science education.”

The Kansas State Board of Education will consider standards later this year on the science teaching in public schools. The instruction of evolution has been a hotly-contested portion of those standards.

Pilcher-Cook denied that she was trying to undo evolution instruction or insert creationism into school curriculum.

“I’m leaving that in the State Board of Education’s hands,” she said.

She added: “This resolution is a message to the state board that there should be religious neutrality in the science classroom.

“All the facts about evolution should be taught, including the gaps and the problems with the theory. Religion should not be taught in the science classroom.”

Pilcher-Cook recently introduced legislation to ban human cloning.