Bible-thumpers win back Kansas

It looks as if the Bible-thumpers have won back Kansas. So-called Intelligent Design supporters have persuaded the Kansas Board of Education to encourage teachers to "discuss various viewpoints" and "eliminate core evolution theory as required curriculum."

This is embarrassing. As I've said before, the theory of evolution is far from perfect or perfectly understood, but its predictions are right 99+% of the time. Its mechanics are always open to debate and change should it be proven wrong, and that's proper scientific method. ID, on the other hand, is closed to debate. The source of everything is God, martians, or something all-powerful. It's a joke of a 'science', and it's a dark day for the United States when it becomes somehow legitimate.