Subject: Kansas (just one more)
Date: Aug 13 20:42:59 1999
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 6:43 AM -0700 8/12/99, Dale Goble wrote:
>A complete version of this article can be found at:
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/081299kan-evolution-edu.html
>
>Kansas Votes to Delete Evolution From State's Science Curriculum
>
Oh, I just love this:
>
>Mark Looy of Answers in Genesis, a creationist group, said: "Students in
>public schools are being taught that evolution is a fact, that they're
>just products of survival of the fittest. There's not meaning in life if
>we're just animals in a struggle for survival. It creates a sense of
>purposelessness and hopelessness, which I think leads to things like
>pain, murder and suicide."
>
Wait: the Inquisition, the Crusades, the witch hunts, (perpetrated by the
Church), all resulting in pain, murder and suicide, long long before Darwin
and the e-theory.


Sorry, I just couldn't resist. :)


Rob Saecker
Olympia