Freedumber! KS Group Files Suit To Stop Science Educators From Teaching About Darwin, Warming

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The nonprofit organization based in the small community of Peck, south of Wichita, was joined in its lawsuit by 15 parents from across the state with a total of 18 children -- most of them in public schools -- and two taxpayers from the Kansas City-area community of Lake Quivira. The parents say they're Christians who want to instill a belief in their children that "life is a creation made for a purpose."

"The state's job is simply to say to students, `How life arises continues to be a scientific mystery and there are competing ideas about it,"' said John Calvert, a Lake Quivira attorney involved in the lawsuit. The lawsuit is against the state board, its 10 members, Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker and the state Department of Education. Neither DeBacker nor board Chairwoman Jana Shaver immediately returned telephone messages seeking comment.

Calvert was a key figure in past Kansas evolution debates as a founder of the Intelligent Design Network, contending that life is too complex to have developed through unguided evolution. Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director for the Oakland, Calif.-based National Center for Science Education, said Calvert has been making such an argument for years and "no one in the legal community has put much stock in it."

"They're trying to say anything that's not promoting their religion is promoting some other religion," Rosenau said, dismissing the argument as "silly."

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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/27/lawsuit-filed-in-kan-to-block-science-standards/

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[gejohnston]

2. My last base was McConnell AFB in Wichita

Happiness was seeing the place in my rear view mirror. The Chief I worked for told me that was his first base, and volunteered for Vietnam as soon as he got there.
Don't get me started on my misadventures with Sedgewick County Schools.