- ‘Dodos’ to help mark Darwin birthday
- January 19, 2007
- Proponents of evolution are planning a birthday bash next month for Charles Darwin at the same time that the State Board of Education will be considering science standards that support evolution.
- Wagnon says SBOE to act on evolution in February
- January 10, 2007
- Bill Wagnon, a Topeka Democrat, was elected Tuesday as chairman of the new moderate-controlled Kansas State Board of Education.
- New state board tackles evolution immediately
- Wagnon, as expected, is chosen chair
- January 9, 2007
- Wagnon, as expected, is chosen chair.
- As old board departs, new evolution stance takes shape
- Moderates set to take control of state education policy
- December 14, 2006
- Science standards that support evolution could be back on the books in Kansas in as little as two months.
- Wagnon: Evolution will return to state board agenda
- New board is seated Jan. 9
- December 13, 2006
- New board is seated Jan. 9
- Biologist speaks for intelligent design
- December 8, 2006
- Penguins, yes. Flagella, no. One of the nation’s leading proponents of intelligent design told a Kansas University audience Thursday that Darwinism or evolution can explain how, in the absence of predators, a bird might lose its ability to fly and begin to walk on the ground.
- Speaker: Science above the fray
- November 17, 2006
- Science isn’t a fighter. Science just is what it is.
- Moderates see Corkins ouster, science switch
- After election, new majority likely to overturn several recent decisions
- August 9, 2006
- Moderates who will control the Kansas State Board of Education next year say it’s only a question of time before they start undoing what the conservatives have done, chiefly dumping anti-evolution education standards and maybe the education commissioner, as well.
- Election hailed as pro-evolution
- August 3, 2006
- Kansas voters dealt a blow to national efforts to put creationism in science classes, evolution proponents said Wednesday.
- Evolution issue tips board’s balance
- Election a moderate success
- August 2, 2006
- Darwin won. Moderate Kansas State Board of Education candidates pulled off a victory Tuesday, gathering enough might to topple the board’s 6-4 conservative majority.
- Lecture series tackles dispute over evolution
- Intelligent design advocate finds list of speakers one-sided
- August 1, 2006
- Kansas University is organizing what some say has been absent in the long, hot battle over the teaching of evolution: dialogue.
- Scientist decries ‘smear’ campaign
- July 12, 2006
- The debate about evolution and intelligent design resurfaced Tuesday at the Kansas State Board of Education meeting.
- Group promotes science standards
- Campaign coincides with state school board elections
- July 8, 2006
- The high-powered Discovery Institute, which promotes the theory of intelligent design, said Friday it will launch a campaign to persuade Kansans that controversial science standards approved by the State Board of Education are sound.
- Intelligent design advocates to campaign in Kansas
- July 7, 2006
- A Seattle-based research group that advocates intelligent design said today it will campaign to educate Kansans that the science standards approved by the State Board of Education are sound.
- Evolution, religion comments put heat on department spokesman
- May 26, 2006
- Normally, a government spokesman helps deliver news. But David Awbrey, the mouthpiece for the Kansas State Department of Education, is making the news following his comments about science, evolution and religion at a recent public forum.
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