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Evolution Restored to Kansas State Teaching Standards

Aired August 2, 2000 - 10:37 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Republican political news from outside of Philadelphia now. The theory of evolution got a big bang in Kansas last night, but the battle over scientific teaching standards continues to rage.

Here's the story now from Jeff Flock.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUE GAMBLE, KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD NOMINEE: Hi.

JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A latter-day Darwin, or maybe Darrow.

GAMBLE: Thanks for all your work.

FLOCK: Sue Gamble campaigned to restore evolution to Kansas state teaching standards.

GAMBLE: Oh my gosh.

FLOCK: She won.

(on camera): What message does this send?

GAMBLE: I think the message is very clear that Kansas parents and Kansas citizens want quality education for their kids.

LINDA HOLLOWAY, KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: Now, that makes me cry.

FLOCK (voice-over): Linda Holloway chaired the state school board that dumped evolution. She and two other anti-evolution candidates were voted down.

HOLLOWAY: I would never do anything different because to fold to political correctness is not a sign of leadership.

FLOCK (on camera): While the evolution backers may have won the most high-profile battle, no one in this highly conservative and religious state is betting that the war over evolution is over.

(voice-over): David Penny (ph) is one of a small but vocal group of anti-evolution scientists. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It certainly won't resolve the issue, and I don't think the issue will go away. And if it's not here, it'll be someplace else.

FLOCK: Indeed, Kansas is just the latest skirmish. Last year, Nebraska removed evolution from its science guidelines. Alabama mandated its textbooks label evolution as "unproven." At the same time, Oklahoma overturned similar labeling. New Mexico banned the teaching of creationism after allowing it four years earlier. And in a Louisiana case, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that teachers did not have to read a disclaimer about evolution as required by one parish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kansas is clearly a barometer.

FLOCK: Leonard Krishtalka (ph) directs the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas where Darwin is etched in stone.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You cannot remove certain parts of science, like evolution or the "big bang," from the rest of science and pretend that you're giving kids a science education.

FLOCK: For now, it seems, Kansas voters agree.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We did it, we did it!

FLOCK: I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, Overland Park, Kansas.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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