Auntie 'Em, it's a Bat-Shit Crazy Person

Christian freaks in Kansas are continuing their assult on science, here. I do like the way the story winds up. I find it highly amusing.

None of the changes intelligent design advocates have proposed in the standards mention their ideas. But other scientists scoff at the notion that the board isn't being pushed to endorse intelligent design.

"The only things that exist in intelligent design literature are criticisms of evolution," said Keith Miller, a research assistant professor in geology at Kansas State University. "Who are the people they are bringing here to speak? Advocates of intelligent design."

Viewing the hearings as rigged against evolution, national and state science groups are boycotting, so no scientist is expected to testify against the intelligent design advocates' case.

Instead, they planned news conferences at the Statehouse. On display for the first one Thursday night was a wheel barrow and two crates full of copies of scientific journals — to suggest evolution is well-documented.

Looking at the URL the web guys used at yahoo news, it is http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050506/ap_on_sc/monkey_trial_ii

Notice, monkey_trail_ii. That is a reference to the origincal Scopes monkey trial, where John Scopes was convicted violating law by teaching evolution in Kansas schools.

Apparently the yahoo news guys have a sense of humor...