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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: creation or evolution in schools
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 11:23:06 EDT
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> I say, let them keep their kids out.  If creationism is so obviously wrong,
> they'll realize this in college (or wherever they run into evolution as
> adults).  For the most part, it doesn't matter anyway.  If not knowing
> evolution is so advantageous, people will begin to realize this and will
> back away from hardline creationism.
> 
> And if it isn't, then, maybe it isn't all that important to teach it in
> school.

Of course it's not.  What difference does it make to kids whether
they're descended from Eve and Adam or Java Man?  Will this "knowledge"
help them get jobs as surgeons or stevedores?  Will they feel better
believing that their great-grandparents a thousand times removed were
simians or sinners?  Will they hang their parlor walls with pictures
of a naked couple or an orangutan?

Schools don't teach what's actual or important, they just teach what
they can.