Some comments or links at the reference 2 cents posted mention that Kansas Board of Education in 1999 outlawed testing students about evolution on standardized tests. Those references didn't say that the following year Kansans defeated pro-Creationist board members in primary elections, and the state board of education in Kansas voted on Feb. 14, 2002 to restore evolution as a central theory in the state's science curriculum. When authors of papers and Web sites seem selective about which facts they present, it's hard to trust their conclusions. Knowledge advances as people make new discoveries and develop better technology to study evidence. Eventually Plate Tectonics could be replaced by new theories just as it replaced earlier beliefs about earth's history. Maybe we still are in the infancy of knowledge about this planet's past and future.

Mary C.