'Misinformation' Key to Kansas Conservatives' Ouster, Says ID Proponent
by Jim Brown
August 10, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Public school biology curricula in Kansas will likely change again now that conservatives have lost control of the State Board of Education to evolution proponents. An advocate of intelligent design attributes the conservatives' ouster to a "misinformation" campaign. Last November, the conservative-led Board amended the state's science standards to require students to learn about criticisms of Darwinian evolution. But as a result of last week's school board primary election, the conservatives now find themselves in a 6-4 minority.
John Calvert, who heads the Intelligent Design Network of Kansas, claims Darwinists fooled voters into believing the revised science standards remove any mention of evolution and mandated the teaching of intelligent design theory. "There [was] systematic misinformation [distributed] about the science standards," claims Calvert. "It was promoted by science institutions and then it was just repeated, for the most part, by the print media."
According to Calvert, newspapers repeated the idea that the new science standards would drive business out of the state, and that students would not be able to enroll in Kansas colleges because they went to Kansas high schools. Those reports and others, he says, tipped the scale against those seeking that the entire truth about evolution be taught.
"That propaganda, which is just completely false, was developed six years ago by the organization that was leading the opposition," he insists. "And it's just false propaganda that is put into the minds of people who don't know the difference."
Calvert says in the eyes of Darwinists, the standard paradigm for teaching evolution is to teach it so ambiguously that there is no way one can tell whether it is wrong or not.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
