TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 -- Debating a question that the scientific establishment considers settled, Kansas education authorities put evolutionary theory on trial Thursday in a hearing marked by sharp exchanges over Earth's origins and what students should be taught in science class...

The debate is the highest-profile confrontation over evolutionary theory in years, pitting the impassioned corps of anti-Darwinists against a scientific establishment that considers the evidence of the chemical and biological origins of life to be beyond dispute. It was made possible by Republican gains in November elections that gave the Kansas board a 6-4 conservative majority...

Usually it is the evolution forces that accuse the intelligent design side of wanting to teach religion in science class. But Harris said educators who teach Darwinian evolution effectively introduce religion by rejecting the possibility that God created the universe and all living things...

Asked where he saw atheism in the Kansas science standards, Harris replied, "I see it between the lines."

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Oh the irony!

For the past few decades the fundy wackos have pulled their kids out of the public schools and sent them to private schools or home schooled them so they wouldn't be contaminated by science, tolerance and evolution.

I can see the day when public schools become awash with intolerance and religious dogma under pressure from these rabid loonies. Then we'll be the ones pulling our kids out and sending them to private schools or home schooling them so they will be exposed to true science and rational thinking.