TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.

Five of the 10 seats on the board were up for election in the primary, the latest skirmish in a seesawing battle between faith and science that has opened Kansas up to international ridicule.

Full story here:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14137751/

Note the special MSNBC feature on humanity's past and possible future evolution.

I don't think it takes into account how biotechnology could bring that timeline
down by several million years. Or that everything is going to be biology-based.

Before and After Humans:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7348103/