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To: birdseye who wrote (299)	9/14/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Before I see her post, here was my take on that. By teaching our children to believe in creation over evolution, we are likely to alientate them in the high tech world. This is because many high tech workers are Indian, Indoneasian, Chinease spies, err, nationals, and European, and a smattering of Muslims. Although the majority are still geeky white guys. Now, what I was wondering was this. Muslims accept creationism. Hindu's have a creationist story similar to Christians, but with over 1,000 Gods, Hindu's are the most religiously open minded people I've met. Most Asians outside of communist countries are Muslim or Christian, with a smattering of Buddists. So, who are we going to alienate with a creationist view, the Chinease sp, err, Nationals?

To: birdseye who wrote (299)	9/14/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

Prove it. There is an impact in the workplace for inadequately trained people. In the tech industry you see two major kinds of workers. There are those who can follow a line of reasoning can solve problems, they can break up big problems, solve the pieces and have those pieces work together again to solve the original. This is exactly the kind of training that science gives. There are others who just follow the steps given. They keeps things running smooth because they do things the way they have always done it. Many of these people are quite bright but lack the training to challenge existing procedures and make them better. TP

To: birdseye who wrote (299)	9/14/1999 7:08:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 69300

Teaching creationism is economically destructive? Now that is a stretch. Prove it. Actually I see both Mike and Tigerpaw answered your question, and I completely agree with both of their posts. However I wasn't even applying that much analysis when I made those comments. I merely thought that there might be a conflict of interest between a robust high-tech workforce that requires the import of foreign workers en-masse... most of which are not Christian... and a community that feels Christian beliefs are appropriate for the public school system. Lets put it this way... if I were an official with the state of Colorado, and I was up against the state of Kansas for a new Intel fab which was going to bring thousands of jobs to my state - the most successful argument against Kansas that I can think of would be to point out that they teach creationism or Christianity in the public schools. I can almost guarantee you Intel HR would take a good hard look at that, as well they should, based on their diverse workforce which they were instrumental in importing from India, Pakistan, the former eastern bloc, you name it. I can't prove this can happen... but I did see something recently on a local show about Idaho... where the public officials are doing a song and dance to try to get high tech to go there, based on a negative public image of racism that Idaho has.