Evolution Billboard Photo Put Up In KS On Evolution:

After giving several talks in central Kansas this past weekend, AiG speaker Carl Kerby was approached by many Kansans who wanted to discuss the still-simmering controversy (going back into the ‘90s) over the teaching of biological origins in the state’s public school science classes.

This billboard is but one manifestation of the growing intensity over the creation/evolution debate in Kansas.

A long-time AiG supporter alerted us to this highway billboard that was posted recently near Kansas City. She tells us that it can be seen on “the southbound traffic leaving downtown Kansas City on I-35 just before the Cambridge Circle exit. It is on the north side of the highway, lit up at night and has text written in white on a black background, with yellow lettering for the website. About 95,000 cars pass this billboard daily.”

The man behind the billboard, we are told, is a 1966 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The wording he selected is from a comment attributed to a French professor that “Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups.”2

In 1999, Kansas was often portrayed as backward by the national and international media (and worse by mocking late-night TV comedians) because of the decision by its state school board that evolution was not to be taught as fact in science classes. The controversy eventually became so shrill that many evolutionists and media outlets falsely claimed that evolution had been removed from the state science curriculum. Evolution, despite recurring articles from news sources like Time magazine to the contrary, remained in the science standards (the word could be found in a few places in the document). These standards, by the way, are used as guidelines for school districts to prepare for statewide science tests.

See billboard @ link:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0126kansas.asp