“Conservative board members said they wanted to make sure that schools teach sound science, arguing that evolution is a flawed theory that cannot be proven.”
—“In Kansas, key decision on teaching evolution” Associated Press, August 12, 1999.
If the new fad of “sound science” takes hold in Washington, I bet we’ll see creationists taking it up again as well, challenging the government funding of “unsound” research into evolution. Stay tuned.
Originally published February 7, 2004. Copyright 2004 Carl Zimmer.