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To: Grantcw who wrote (23596)	7/14/1998 1:26:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Grant, Remember that I said that it is rare for a textbook to mention evolution, much less teach it in any depth. I should have said "up to through the high school level" by the way. I can't foresee what a teacher says about it. If you want an example of the other extreme, my daughter had a math teacher who spent a short time every day on the lesson, and the bulk of the time talking about the Bible. In Math! Nothing was ever done about it even after many complaints. His students did very poorly in math tests. Duh. Dolphins were once land mammals that returned to the sea, so the analogy would be valid. Del

To: Grantcw who wrote (23596)	7/16/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Grant, in reading your post to Del about evolution, I think you may be operating on a misunderstanding. When you remark that it does not make that teacher look good to suggest we could evolve back into the water, it sounds like you are making some kind of determination that higher animals live outside water. Dolphins are about the most evolved animals on the planet, in many ways, so that isn't true. Besides that, there is nothing inherently better about living on land. And to evolve just means to change in order to survive better, which could be to land from water, or to water from land. It is more about developing to survive, than where that happens.