Hey Art,
I'm just glad I don't have children in the Kansas school system.
It's hard to believe that evolution is still being called "just
a theory" after all these years. From the first moment I learned
about evolution in school everything finally made perfect sense
to me in biology; it is the string that holds everything together.
The studies of comparative anatomy, animal behavior, zoogeography,
physiology, etc...all of biological science...only make sense when
looked at with evolution in mind. Can you imagine trying to teach
children biology without being allowed to teach them the underlying
reasoning behind everything they are seeing.
I hear there was an solar eclipse yesterday, well there's one in Kansas
now...the light has gone out and I feel sorry for the kids.
Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada



>Hey, All;-
>        The article by Pam Belluck in todays NY Times should scare all of us
>almost as much as the understanding of Quantum Mechanics.
>        She writes: "The Kansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to delete
>virtually  any mention of elolution from the state's science
>curriculum---" (and goes on--"---the decision is likely to embolden
>local school boards to remove volution from their curriculum, force
>teachers to  note questions about its validity, or introduce creationist
>ideas. Some local school boards have already said they will consider
>adopting creationist textbooks---"
>        It goes on to say that creationists have shifted their tactics to
>excluding elolution instead of pushing devine creation. It states that
>books should be labled (like cigarette packs) to warn that evolution is
>"JUST" a theory and has never been seen in action.
>        Whew!
>                Art
>(Do you think it's just cause Kansas doesn't have a beach?)
>
>
Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca