Re: ID and Creationism

From: Susan Cogan (Susan-Brassfield@ou.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 10:38:14 EST

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    >Susan:
    > >But are the high school graduates compelled to take
    >> certain jobs at graduation?
    >
    >BillWald:
    >Obviously not. What percentage of HS graduates do you think are
    >suffuciently educated to understand a discussion of evolution?

    oh, hell no. But that's not a function of government so much as
    fundamentalists putting pressure on text book companies, teachers,
    and local school boards--and a basic decline in American education
    that has taken place over the last 40 years.

    I had to teach evolution to my daughter. In her HS biology text book
    there was exactly one page on evolution and it was mostly just a
    capsule bio of Darwin himself.

    Susan 

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      I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be 
denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is 
bound to shew why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man 
as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the 
laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of 
the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction.

    ---Charles Darwin

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