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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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From Bill Jefferys: 

>                               Merely teaching the phenomenology
> of biology, as Paul proposes, would be to teach a severely emasculated
> subject, since evolution pervades all aspects of the field.

Biology is moving more and more today towards molecular biology. 
Interpre tation of biology on the molecular level draws  heavily on
evolutionary ideas.   Trying to decouple evolution from molecular
biology will undoubtly make teaching this important subject meaningless.
(See for example: Molecular Biology of the Cell, by B. Alberts
et. al., 1983, Garland Publishing, Inc. ).  

I do agree with Bill that creationists should be excused from
classes that teach evolution.
-- 
Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho


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