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From: pvp@ihuxl.UUCP (Philip Polli)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Creationists want evolution taught?
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 16:53:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 16:53:16 1984
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Miller writes:
>No creationist individual/group I'm aware of advocates taking children out of
>evolutionary classrooms and/or not allowing them exposure to evolution.  Quite
>the contrary, all creationist individuals/groups I'm aware of advocates
>presenting *all* of the evidence available for evolution and *all* of the
>evidence available for creation.
>... The inference they have created is that creationists don't want their
>children to hear about evolution.  Homework: Demonstrate said claim or retract
>it.  I'll accept any published statement, in context, from ICR, CRS, BSA, or
>SOR.

The actual result of creationist pressure on educators is the removal
or playing down of evolution in school textbooks.
To misquote Sagan, this is an observable fact.

To quote a much abused book, "By their fruits you shall know them".

What creationists claim is their goal, and what they are actually
accomplishing are two different things. They don't appear to be too
upset at the simple removal of evolution from the textbooks. I do
believe that they are as dishonest in stating their goals as they are
in interpreting evidence and responding to rebuttals.

By the way, it has become quite clear that creationist babblescience
contradicts a much wider area than simple evolution. Why don't they insist
that their new astronomy (e.g. Riemannian space) and physics 
(e.g. variable atomic decay rates) be taught also?
Why do they only attack evolution? What is it about evolution that
disgusts them so much?

Of course, if textbooks had to include all of the half-truths
and wild assertions needed to support creationism, the teachers would
find it difficult to be heard over the laughter of all the students.


	Phil Polli
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