To the editor:

So, the conservatives on the Kansas Board of Education were right all along. According to a Kansas City Star survey, only a minority of Kansans believe evolution offers a plausible explanation for the origin of life. Does it matter that most of those surveyed are not biologists? Of course not! No more than it matters that all the folks screaming about “judicial activism” are not lawyers. In this new development in the history of democracy, we no longer need scientists, or judges, or experts of any kind!

This is excellent news for me because my dentist told me last week I need some expensive crowns put on. I would like the people of Kansas to vote on this issue. In previous unenlightened times, it would have mattered that most people in Kansas have never seen my teeth and have never studied dentistry. Can we also allow the people to vote on that burning issue of whether light is a wave or a particle?

While we’re at it, the whole outdated heliocentric theory offered by that dead foreigner always seemed fishy to me. I mean, has anyone ever actually seen the Earth revolve around the Sun, except for some liberal professors in elitist universities?

What a wonderful era we are entering, when all truths will be subject to the will of the attention-deficient, education-starved, entertainment-demanding, celebrity-worshipping masses. God bless democracy and God bless America!

Jim Leiker,

Eudora