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

[carlo godel <regiaero@gj.net>]

as some say in this and other necks of the woods
         "AvoiDios"

Stanley Friesen wrote:

> 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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