RUEFUL creationists in the Midwest last week could have echoed Dorothy鈥檚 鈥淭oto, I鈥檝e got a feeling we鈥檙e not in Kansas anymore鈥�. Not the Kansas they had made, anyway.
In a state primary election on 1 August, voters ousted two school board members who opposed teaching evolution. One of them, Connie Morris, a former teacher, has described evolution as 鈥渁 nice bedtime story鈥�. Morris lost to Sally Cauble, a teacher favouring the teaching of evolution.
The result guarantees that the state school board will swing in January 2007 from one that opposes the teaching of evolution to one on which it has majority support. 鈥淭he people of Kansas are tired of being the laughing stock of not just the nation, but the world,鈥� says Janet Waugh, a pro-evolution school board member who won her primary.
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