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Intelligent Design Supporter to Run for Wagnon's Seat

WIBW Television (Topeka, Kansas) December 9, 2005

A Lawrence Republican who supports intelligent design says he will seek a Kansas Board of Education seat now held by a member who defends evolution.

Alan Detrich, 58, said, "These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee...''

Detrich said he wants to challenge Bill Wagnon, a Topeka Democrat whose seat isn't up for election until 2008. Wagnon was one of four board members who voted last month against new science standards that critique evolution using an intelligent design perspective.

The new standards, which treat evolution as a flawed theory, were approved on a five-to-four vote.

Detrich is a fossil hunter who has made some well publicized finds, among them a triceratops skull that was displayed at the Lawrence Public Library last spring.

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