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To: epicure who wrote (83697)	7/12/2000 10:11:37 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

So we basically agree. Now we just have to make sure that schools teach evolution not as a proven fact, but as a theory which at the present time is the theory which scientists feel best fits the evidence they have to date discovered -- nothing more and nothing less. [Although, actually, the theory that God placed the fossils in the ground to fool us fits the discovered evidence better than the theory of evolution does, since in the latter there are some fossils that don't seem to fit nicely, whereas in the former everything fits perfectly because that's the way God put it there. So fitting the facts isn't the only test.] Unfortunately, most HS biology textbooks--let me modify that; all the biology textbooks used in our high school over the past six years, and all those which were reviewed as possible replacements for the biology texts three years ago--do not take this tack, but present evolution as proven fact which students must accept, or at least claim to accept, if they want to pass the course.