Re: (news)N.C. fossil find predates dinosaurs

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 08:25 PM 8/17/99 -0500, Robert Broadway wrote:
>Dear Betty:
>
>As to your little comment about KANSAS...well.....I LIVE IN KANSAS and I
>wish your comment ............WASN'T SO TRUE.....It's embarrasing...it's
>shameful....

Yeah.  I grew up there, and most of my relatives still live there.

[Sigh - and in some sense some of them are partly to blame for this, as some
of my uncles *are* - well you know].
>
>For those of you who missed it, the Kansas Board of Education voted this
>week to allow EVERY school in the state to teach CREATIONISM as a virtual
>fact....AND  further,  schools may now choose NOT to teach evolution at
>all.
>
>We are the first state in the Union to turn students into science idiots.
>
I wouldn't go that far. Texas had us beat by decades.
And a few other southern states certainly *tried* to "beat" us.

>I am the Executive Director of two non-profit organizations.....does anyone
>have any ideas on Grants which would fund micro-classes and programs
>STRESSING evolution?

Actually, one important point is that the decision is only *permissive*, not
binding.  This means that it is up to the local school systems to decide how
to handle it.  I suspect many will stick with the truth.  (I know my
biology teacher
from Lawrence High would *never* acquiesce with teaching Creatinism instead
of evolution, or even with leaving evolution out of the class, so as long
as Mr.
Roth is still at Lawrence High, *that* school is safe).

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