Palca on Darwin

Darwin, Britain's Hero, Is Still Controversial In U.S. : NPR

NPR's Joe Palca starts off a week of Darwinian coverage.

""There are actually 34 states in the United States that have passed anti-evolution laws of one kind or another," says Krishtalka, "whether it's stickers in textbooks or warnings that 'Reading this book with be injurious to your mental health," whether it's California or Alabama or Louisiana. For the record, in Kansas, the teaching of evolution in schools never stopped because all of the regulation and rules that the anti-evolution segment of the Kansas City Board of Education tried to get through were never enacted.""