Kansans Not Yet Fully Evolved

From today's New York Times (sign-up required):

"TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 - Six years after Kansas ignited a national debate over the teaching of evolution, the state is poised to push through new science standards this summer requiring that Darwin's theory be challenged in the classroom."

Here we go again.

"If the board adopts the new standards, as expected, in June, Kansas would join Ohio, which took a similar step in 2002, in mandating students be taught that there is controversy over evolution."

Controversy, yes. Not scientific controversy, though, only political.