All Politics Are Local

While most of the Country seems to be focusing om Iraq, Israel and Lebanon, voters in Kansas are debating evolution. Today people went to the polls in Kansas with evolution on their minds with 5 of 10 seats open on the Kansas Board of Education. It started last year

(AP)Last November, the Board of Education's 6-to-4 conservative Republican majority rewrote testing standards for public schools to incorporate language supported by advocates of intelligent design, which holds that life is so complex it must have been created by some kind of higher power. The new standards say that some aspects of evolution are contradicted by scientific evidence.

And how did one of those board members describe this debate?

Board member Connie Morris' race in western Kansas was the most closely watched. The retired teacher has described evolution as "an age-old fairy tale" and "a nice bedtime story" unsupported by science.

They must be talking to the same scientists who deny global warning.