"When was this ? IT NEVER HAPPENED . I assume you are talking about back in 1999 , when they increased evolutionary curriculum five fold ? What they did in '99 was remove the requirement that macro evolution be taught . They have never removed old earth ( that just sounds stupid ) from earth science standards ,"
"You 're kidding , right ? You actually live in Kansas and you actually got yourself elected to a school board and you are unfamiliar with the efforts of creationists on the Kansas Board of Education to remove the teaching of evolution from the science standards ? You are telling a lie . Maybe you have been duped by creationists and do n't know that you are . A committee of 27 scientists and science educators was hired to rewrite the science standards . There were several drafts that were all presented to the board . When the final draft was presented , it was rejected and replaced by a version that had been put together by a YEC ( a geocentrist no less ) from Missouri . The adopted standards did not increase the evolutionary curriculum . The standards very clearly touted YEC ideas , barely mentioned even macro-evolution , and removed all references to the age of the earth and the universe . I know that sounds stupid , but then I do n't live in Kansas where school board members think that limiting mention of evolution to microevolution is smart . I read the proposed standards and the ones that were adopted . At the next election several creationists lost their seats , and the new school board threw out the `` new standards `` and adopted the version that had been written by the committee . Those standards probably actually did raise the levels of what was expected to be taught in Kansas schools from one of the worst in the nation to one of the best . You were aware that the Ford Foundation had funded a study of state science standards and Kansas had received an F. The creationist standards also received an F , and the standards written by the committee of scientists and educators received an A . You know , it almost would have been fun to be a biology teacher in Kansas when micro-evolution was OK and presentation of `` holes `` in the theory were required . I could have probably gone on for a week or two about the problems presented to the Biblical flood story from a biological standpoint . Noah 's flood requires macro-evolution . Not only that , it requires macro-evolution at rates that make the heads of evolutionary biologists spin . Just think - about 6 different species of horse , unknown numbers of cattle species , 36 different species of cat , twenty some species of the wolf/dog `` kind `` and so forth . What fun to be required to teach `` alternative `` theories in that case . Scientific Community Unites Against Kansas Board of Education Evolution Decision Kansas Board Votes To Bar Evolution From Classroom"
"when they increased evolutionary curriculum five fold ? What they did in '99 was remove the requirement"
"You actually live in Kansas and you actually got yourself elected to a school board"