Teaching Evolution Story aired: Thursday, May 05, 2005
The Kansas Board of Education begins hearings today to once again consider teaching alternatives to evolution.
In 1999, the board removed most references to evolution from the state's science standards. In 2000 a new board put evolution back into the curriculum. Following the most recent election, the board once again has a conservative majority.
The most recent Gallup poll shows a slim majority of Americans embrace creationism, the concept that man was created whole by God within the last 10,000 years.
Opponents of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution also have a new weapon. They're equipping students with lists of questions calling evolution into question.
Click the listen link to hear Robin Young's interview with Brad Williamson, who teaches science at Olathe East High School in Olathe Kansas.
