RE: hmmm.....

I just had to jump in on this one. Being formerly from Kansas for the past 10 years.
A hard look at the "facts" and the holes in the scientific evidence for evolution. To accept it as absolute takes as much FAITH as any intelligent design theory. The problem with the academic institutions is that they have taken a THEORY and are trying to pass it as fact. This is as grossly wrong as trying to force religion on someone who doesn't want anything to do with a deity. Education should be allowing the FREE FLOW of ideas not just directing them down one Politically Correct path or another. I don't support teachers thumping the Bible, Torah, Koran or any other religious book from their podium. Nor, to I support them bashing them and discrediting their value either, which has come to be the case with much of US public education.

Rodd Holman (BS chemistry - yes I've looked into the minutea of life processes and can't find explanations in evolution) Enterprise Data Systems Engineer
LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation
rodney.holman_at_lodgenet.com
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> From: MacGregor, Ian A. [SMTP:ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
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> A school board in the sunflower state proscribed the teaching of
> evolutionion in their schools, or at least forbade it without giving
> religious assertions as to the why's and wherefore's of life's existence
> equal time and credence.
>
> Less well known: NASA recently apologized to the Navajo Nation after
> crashing a capsule containing cremated astronomer on the moon. I cannot
> remember what insult was conveyed by the dead astronomer-moon impact.
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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>
> Roads and highways are a good example, because they cut across local and
> sometimes state boundaries. However, private colleges and universities
> seem
> to work fine, why not grade school? I suppose if there was a great demand
> in a community for a school which did not teach evolution, then such a
> school would appear. And if all the parents who want such a school don't
> believe in evolution, then I guess they ought to have the right to have
> their kids educated in accordance with their principles and values, even
> if
> they seem outrageously ignorant to us.
>
> I don't get the fossil reference; forgive me, I'm a product of NY public
> schools!
>
> Gary
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