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To: TigerPaw who wrote (493)	9/15/1999 3:12:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Tiger Paw, I am so glad you are back but you still have not answered my question: which US Biology textbook currently calls evolution a fact and not a theory? As I told you, all the ones that I have looked at talk about - " highly suggestive of " - " proven beyond a reasonable doubt " - " nothing else can explain things " - " all data point towards this being the answer " - " most biologists now believe in it " I am sorry. Not enough. It is either proven 100% or it has yet to be proven. All US textbooks continue to wisely call it " a theory ". I say, let's call in anything that does not support evolution such as the data recently discovered in China ( all organisms in the same earth stratum at the same time rather than over time, to allow for alleged natural selection over time to occur , that I mentioned earlier, ) and make this fun. If there is any doubt about how it all started ( which neither you nor I can prove mathematically ) then it is best to leave all avenues still open in the High Schools and explore all of them: Biology, Philosophy, History of Religions, and let the young mush slowly develop their own roots rather than us wanting to plant them in a pot of our choice. If we must have the parents direct the mushy brains ( and I can live with that ) then lets leave into the parent's pockets the dollars that they earned and allow THEM to decide which school they want to put their kids in ( public or religious ). That would maintain separation of Church and State because the decision to spend the dollar comes from the parent not the State. The dollar belongs to the parents, not the State. There is no Constitutional reason to support the public schools as the exclusive recipients of educational ( read tax free ) moneys eom back much later TA Message #493 from TigerPaw at Sep 15 1999 2:48PM we can criticize Darwin There are several difficulties in Darwins book The Origin of Species. He wrote that book a long time ago, he got it mostly right, but there are a few bits of evidence he did not adequately explain. The theory of Natural Selection has been expanded in the later theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. I'm sure more modifications will be necessary. But just as gravity didn't stop when it was discovered that Newton's theory of universal gravity was incomplete, so the basics of evolution have not changed. TP