Philosophical Aspects of the so-called „Kansas Affair”
Journal Title: Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy - Year 2004, Vol 1, Issue 0
Abstract
The aim of the article is the presentation and analysis of some events of 1999. During the routine process of updating the state school teaching standards in Kansas (USA), the group of local creationist activists (mostly so-called young earth creationists) made successful attempt to introduce some corrections into the document of the final science curriculum. This document has been adopted in a vote of Kansas State Board of Education in August 1999. The corrections introduced by creationists removed from the science curriculum, among other things, the records about superior and undeniable role of the neo-Darwinian theory and the theory of evolution us such in science, especially in biology, anthropology, and geology (and more generally in all sciences dealing with the origin of the Universe and the man). After this event, a political and media all-American (or even international) campaign against Kansas state, initialized by evolutionists and full of derision and raillery, led, after next state elections, to appointment of new members of the Board who cancelled controversial records and restored pro-evolutionist ones, compatible with the present state of knowledge and opinion of most scientists.
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Tomasz Krause
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