Evolution-centered science OK'd in Kan. - Science - MSNBC.com

TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule.The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of %u201Cintelligent design,%u201D who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.The intelligent design concept holds that life is so complex that it must have been created by a higher authority."