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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Ethics 'n Stuff
Message-ID: <489@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 18:17:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 18:17:06 1985
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In article <945@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
> It seems to me that the responsibility for dissemination of
> information relating to alternative theories of evolution rests
> squarely on the shoulders of the evolutionist.  Don't you agree?  
> 
> (As an illustration of the poor job evolutionists do of transmitting
> information about their work, consider that the first place I learned
> of punctuated equilibrium was in an ICR publication! ....)

As a matter of fact, evolutionary biologists have not been commanded by god
to go out and spread evolutionary biology to the world.  Most professional
biologists are squirrelled away in universities.

If biologists are scurrilously proselytizing for secular humanism as many
creationists think they are, creationists have little to worry about.

The real problem is that of bringing proper educational materials to
teachers.  (Scientist doesn't necessarily equal teacher, as all too many
college students learn.)  The textbook industry is quite slow to absorb
new ideas in science.  Partly because what sells textbooks is who they
appeal to and who they don't offend.  It's quite likely that many children
will not learn about punctuated equilibrium because of the efforts of
people like the Gablers in Texas.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh