evolution

In the New York Times, there was an article dealing with the issues faced while teaching about evolution. Recently Kansas has become one of the few states willing to teach about evolution in elementary schools. Many organizations do not want to provide the schools with teaching materials which contain information about natural evolution. They feel that the students should not be confined to learning about only one possibilty as to how life began.

This is kind of like what happened in the Scopes Monkey Trial. The Scopes Monkey Trial happened in the State of Tennesse. Mr Scopes, a teacher, wanted to teach about natural evolution. Natural evolution means that humans descended from Monkeys. The trial decided that no one in Tennesse could teach anything about evolution that refuted the idea of a divine being creating man. In Kansas, the school systems want the students to be open and subjected to the idea that there could have been a divine being who created the world and the humans.