Kentucky Superintendent Balks At Evolution Content In State Biology Test

The Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader (12/13, Warren) reports that Hart County, Kentucky, Superintendent Ricky D. Line "is arguing that a new test that Kentucky high school students will take for the first time next spring will treat evolution as fact, not theory, and will require schools to teach that way," noting that he has complained to Education Commissioner Terry Holliday and Kentucky Board of Education members, calling on them to "reconsider the 'Blueprint' for Kentucky's new end-of-course test in biology." The piece relates Line's objections "that the Blueprint essentially would 'require students to believe that humans ... evolved from primates such as apes and ... were not created by God.'"