John Timmer: "Kentucky lawmakers shocked to find evolution in biology tests".
Given that evolution is extremely well supported and provides the central organizing idea of biology, ACT's tests featured it heavily. That made a number of the state legislators rather unhappy, and gave them the chance to demonstrate that they should not be setting education policy.
"I would hope that creationism is presented as a theory in the classroom, in a science classroom, alongside evolution," the Lexington Herald-Leader quotes Senator David Givens as saying.
There's a lot of evolution in Kentucky's trademark agricultural products...