When the Kansas school board removed evolution from the science curriculum back in 1999, they also removed the Big Bang.
Concerning entertainment of passengers on board, the evolution is so rapid that in this area we have not only concepts but also products integrating the most popular multimedia (from DVD to MP3 players and videogames) (Fig. 4).
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They became heroes to teachers everywhere when they unanimously refused to read a pedagogically unsound, board-imposed evolution disclaimer to students, which forced administrators to come to each classroom to read the offensive paragraph themselves.
These are the sort of conflicts that we see acted out in school board meetings and evolution "debates," as creationists and intelligent design proponents clash with those defending evolution's status as the central theory of modern biology (e.g., see Miller 2010).
The Kansas state school board reinstated teaching evolution last year, after striking it from the science curriculum two years earlier.
Mrs. Gamble's opponent, Linda Holloway, a conservative who headed the school board when the evolution decision was made, has raised $90,000, an extraordinary sum in such races.
But the high school's science teachers said they were first approached by a board member about evolution in fall 2003.
In early January, Dover High School's science teachers refused to read to ninth-graders a short statement written by the school board that criticizes evolution and cites a controversial approach called Intelligent Design as an alternative.
But Linda Holloway, a member of the 1999 state board that dumped evolution, said the mainstream scientists' failure to participate in the hearings signaled that "they're afraid to be cross-examined, they're afraid to defend their theory".
