Frightening and hilareous at the same time. The Kansas Board of Education
continues its show of excellence (they were THE board of education in Brown
vs. the Board of Education). Maybe they had their reasons for doing it -
you can keep more kids on the farm if they don't have the knowledge to work
elsewhere.

The growth and aggressiveness of religious fundamentalism is a true threat
to science and the overall economy and well being of the United States and
IS discussed in major corporate boardrooms as such. I've actually had job
applicants who lacked requisite skills say that they weren't worried about
those skills because "The Lord will take care of that for me". I have a
prominent psychologist friend who compares such fundamentalists to drug
addicts - simply two ways to put off dealing with reality, only the
religious folk pass it on to their kids.

Many are very nice people, and are entitled to their beliefs, but of so
little faith that they have to eliminate others beliefs in order to affirm
their own - very sad.

I think they should all have to watch the "Attenborough in Paradise" episode
3 times this week instead of going to their traditional places of worship.
(There, birds and evolution and current)

Just a reminder - Kansas will celebrate its almost certain move into the
12th Century at midnight December 31, 1999.

Rob Conway
Bellevue


>From: "Bill Smith" <pwsmith at techline.com>
>Reply-To: pwsmith at techline.com
>To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Interesting news story
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:53:10 -0700
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>Subject: Kansas Rejects Evolution In Science Classes
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>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/tx/19990811/ts/science_evolution_2.html
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