>Having said all that, I firmly believe that evolution should be taught in a
>fair and accurate way--explaining its weaknesses as well as strengths.
I think that statement encapsulates the root of the whole present conflict.
If this feeling and practice were widespread, the issue in Kansas might
not exist. However, how are you going to find thousands of high school
teachers with sufficient background in the issues involved to entrust them
with this responsibility, even if it *were* possible, to present the data
fairhandedly. They would need a very different education than I suspect
most of them have had in philosophy and the appropriate issues in science.
And then there are the issues of their own spiritual joirney that must be
dealt with. I don't doubt Steve's ability to finesse this at the college
level. How many others would be as open-minded and how many particularly
at the high school level where the students are much more susceptible to
pressures from either side?
Art
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