— Example of changes to an Environmental Protection Agency report made by White House officials under George W. Bush, June 19, 2003
Political staff are becoming increasingly bold in forcing agency officials to endorse junk science.
— Jeremy Symons, a climate policy expert at the National Wildlife Federation, June 19, 2003
Evolution is back in Kansas.
— Headline after the Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 vote, February 21, 2001. Two other fundamental scientific theories, cosmology (the origin and fate of the universe), and plate tectonics (the movement of continents), were also restored to the classroom.
In 1999 Darwinists launched a vicious campaign of threats and ridicule when the Kansas State Board of Education refused to require that Darwinism be taught as the sole explanation for life's diversity. (They did not ban the teaching of evolution, as the media widely misreported.) Sadly, those tactics paid off the following year, when state elections shifted the board's membership enough to reimpose the old orthodoxy.
— Mark Hartwig, Focus on the Family magazine, 2002. The theories of evolution and intelligent design are treated as matters of religious orthodoxy and opinion.
On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.
— George W. Bush, 2002
Can Science Conquer Kansas?
— Headline after the Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 on August 11 to make evolution a local option in the state's 304 school districts, September 27, 1999
Kansas just embarrassed itself on the national stage.
— Dr. John Staver, chairman of a 27-member committee of scientists and teachers that had worked for more than a year on questions of science and religion in the Kansas public schools, August 11, 1999
