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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Great Commission
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 23:02:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 30 23:02:43 1985
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>> 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.
>
>It's quite likely that many more people have been exposed to p.e.
>because of the noise that creationists make about it, than have been
>exposed to it because of evolutionary scientists.  They just won't
>hear about it in a way you like.

Yes, they'll hear about it totally misrepresented (a reptile gave birth
to a bird etc.).

>Hitching quotes this passage in his book and comments:  "It is the
>whole and only passage on the subject [of macroevolution], verbatim.
>No doubts or contrary arguments about the mechanism of macro-evolution
>appear anywhere."  I looked it up to see if it is really true.  It is.
>
>Did you ever hear anything different than this in school?  I didn't.
>The confidence exuded by this passage is truly a marvel to behold,
>particularly in view of the fact that the general conclusion presented
>by the excerpt is hardly generally agreed upon.
>
>Paul DuBois     {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--

I didn't even hear this much in school.  Actually, I got very little 
information on evolution in school (I didn't major in biochemistry or
palentology though). 

Keith Doyle
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