Basing science standards in religion isn't much of a standard

The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 Tuesday to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote.

The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language favored by the board Tuesday comes from advocates of intelligent design.

The intelligent design concept holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause. Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years through natural selection.

Creationism Intelligent design proponents have apparently won a bit of a victory in getting their dogmatic foot in the door and chipping away at the real science of evolution in order to promote "God an unspecified intelligent cause did it" dogma science.

Argues for home/private schooling. At least there you can choose your theocratic leanings.

Though if they give equal time (i.e., in addition to "God an unspecified intelligent cause" they address the beliefs of American Indians, Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Wiccans, etc.). That would be reasonable, right? Because you know the question is going to come up..."who is the "unspecified intelligent cause"? What is the answer per the curriculum?