Kathy Martin's Views on Science Education...

Kathy Martin's opponent would have you believe that she is against the teaching of Darwin's theory of macroevolution, and wants Kansas public schools to only teach creationism.  This could not be further from the truth!  Kathy is a former Lead Science Teacher for her district and she would never endorse that kind of censorship.  Scientific inquiry is about examining all possible theories.  The truth is that Darwin's theory is far from proven and that continuing to teach it as fact without offering competing theories for Kansas students to consider is doing them a disservice.  Scientific discoveries made over the last decades, such as the DNA code in every living cell, have proven Darwin's theory of macroevolution not to be a plausible theory.  However, Kathy does believe that microevolution is possible, that is the adaptation of a creature such as a fish living in the deep and losing its eyesight because it has no need for eyes.  Kathy does not believe that evolution should be taken out of the science curriculum.  On the contrary, she believes we should be spending more time on a critical analysis of Darwin's theory in the science classroom.  We should be taking a critical look at the evidence for all theories of origin, including both evolution and intelligent design.