31.   Statewide science standards set by science educators, not politicians.

32.   Still present in the science standards is microevolution, or change within species.

33.   That was when members approved science standards that did not include some aspects of evolution, the big-bang theory and references to the age of the Earth.

34.   The flap over evolution is heightening public interest in the new Kansas science standards, which the board will take up Wednesday.

35.   The Kansas board of education voted to drop evolution from state science standards last year.

36.   The group intends to offer the alternate science standards written by Johnson and others to people in other states.

37.   The Lerner report assigns a grade to each state based on how thoroughly or scantily it treats evolution in science education standards.

38.   The primary election results ensure that evolution supporters will be able to change the science standards once new board members are in place next year.

39.   The new science standards would require students to describe and explain ocean tides, constellations, planetary movements and other natural phenomenon.

40.   The science standards that have revived the debate determine what Kansas students will learn and be tested on.