Abstract
By a 6-4 vote, on August 12, 1999 the Kansas Board of Education deleted most references to evolution from its science teaching standards. Within days, a chapter on geology and paleontology in Kansas--The Prairie Spirit Lives, a new history textbook for seventh- and eighth-grade students, was removed by its publishers. The deleted chapter had focused on a prehistoric inland sea and 150 million- year-old fossils found in western Kansas. Director Jim Bean of the Grace Dangberg Foundation, which is publishing the book, explained: "If we talk about [things that old], then it's beyond a creation date that most religions use."