Kansas schools challenge Darwinism: the history and future of the creationism-evolution controversy in American public education. From: Journal of Church and State | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: Davis, Derek H. | COPYRIGHT 1999 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

The recent decision of the Kansas State Board of Education to de-emphasize the teaching of evolution in the Kansas public schools has recharged the ongoing debate across America about the relative merits of evolution and creationism as curricular subjects in the nation's public schools. Evolution is the scientific theory that organisms evolve over time by adopting traits that maximize their chances of survival. Creationism is the belief, taken generally f...

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