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To: Dayuhan who wrote (50817)	8/11/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

Kansas, bleeding Kansas.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (50817)	8/11/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

I hadn't seen it. Obviously, the 6 Board Members who voted for elimination of Evolutionary Science are very learned men who could not have evolved from apes even though they tend to think like apes. They also emulate the famous "See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no Evil" monkeys extremely well. I love this particular gentlemen's ludicrous statement: ''It's deception,'' said Tom Willis, director of the Creation Science Association for Mid-America, which helped write the new standards. ''You can't go into the laboratory or the field and make the first fish. When you tell students that science has determined (evolution to be true), you're deceiving them.'' I would like to try my own experiment. Replacing Tom Willis' brain with Silly Putty and then observing if it improves his thinking skills. I wager it would...

To: Dayuhan who wrote (50817)	8/11/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Pat Robertson has succeeded in his stated goal of placing his kind of people on school boards and boards of education, while most of you stood by and did nothing. I have been attacked for years as being alarmist for saying that this type of thing would occur. It really doesn't matter that the Kansas school board won't allow high school textbooks to teach evolution, because no such books exist now, despite the public perception. I have asked many times for somebody to direct me to a science book that teaches evolution, with no response. We have people from all over the country represented here, and nobody can find one? I wonder, what do the science books teach in the Phillipines? Onward to the dark ages led by the Christian wrong. Del