The later statement: "Evolution has no specific direction or goal..." is still
over the top. The word specific should
be changed to something like apparent, but that is for another day...
Allan Harvey <aharvey@boulder.nist.gov> on 02/04/2000 02:42:01 PM
To: "Wendee Holtcamp" <wendee@greendzn.com>
cc: asa@calvin.edu (bcc: James Taggart/Multilink)
Subject: Re: NAS statement
At 01:30 PM 2/4/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Somehow I missed all the previous exchange but am interested in this. What
>was the recent change to the National Academy of Sciences statement on
>evolution for a Sun school class? Keith, can you resend me your original
>message?
The story of the change in the statement itself (as written up by Eugenie
Scott) is at this Website:
http://www.natcenscied.org/nabtart.htm
It's nice to see that this secular body is agreeing with many of us that
it is wrong to attach God-excluding metaphysical meaning to evolutionary
scientific descriptions. Now if we could just get certain Christian
anti-evolution crusaders to realize that ....
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