Mr. JAY LABOV (National Academy of Sciences): Why they try to do is to insert language that makes it seem as if there's some controversy within the scientific community as to whether evolution has occurred, and the vast, vast majority of scientists accept the evidence for evolution that has accumulated over the last 150 years.

NPR: Groups Fight New Science Standards in Kansas

This is one of the most solid pieces of evidence confirming our common ancestry and the truth of evolution.

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They also encourage teachers to discuss with their students such things as gaps in the fossil record, molecular evidence, that they say raises questions about the theory of evolution.

NPR: Intelligent Design in American Classrooms

Studying it may also help us understand the rise of similar conceits that lack plausible evidence that evolution could not have happened, that the moon landing was a hoax and, far more egregious, that the Holocaust was a lie created by massive conspiracy.

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Ms. KATHY MARTIN (Kansas Board of Education): If the teacher has had any apprehension about teaching controversy about evolution or any of the things that contradict evolution, they now should understand that it's perfectly OK here in Kansas to teach evolution and both sides of the controversy, either evidence that supports it or evidence that refutes it.

NPR: Kansas Moves Closer to Intelligent Design Curriculum

Studying it may also help us understand the rise of similar conceits that lack any plausible evidence--the belief that evolution could not have happened, that the moon landing was a hoax and, far more egregious, that the Holocaust was a lie and all evidence of it is the result of a massive conspiracy.

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New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution.

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