An excellent discussion of creationism and evolution is found in the book
entitled: "Why People Believe in Weird Things" by Michael Shermer. R/Steve


>From: Don Baccus <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
>Reply-To: dhogaza at pacifier.com
>To: robin_birder at hotmail.com, pwsmith at techline.com,
>tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: Interesting news story
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:50:01 -0700
>
>At 02:52 PM 8/11/99 PDT, Rob Conway wrote:
> >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 leader is a veternarian who claims to understand science,
>and therefore understands that evolution is "junk science".
>He trotted out a handful of the lies promulgated by the
>Institute for Creation Research as his basis for claiming
>he understands more about biology than do biologists (which
>is what claims of superior judgement regarding evolution
>amount to)
>
>According to the original newspaper piece, they were considering
>banning origins of the universe teachings as well, i.e.
>cosmology, though of course astronomy and cosmology aren't
>courses taken by many high schoolers anyway, even outside of
>Kansas.
>
>
>
>- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
> Nature photos, on-line guides, Pacific Northwest
> Rare Bird Alert Service and other goodies at
> http://donb.photo.net.


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