(I know I shouldn't do this, really I do)

I can't say that I find it terribly sinister when the Native American groups
expect that we will represent their creation stories in as straightforward
and non-biased way as we represent scientists' creation stories.   Just
because the former has great turtles and holes in the sky and the latter
includes an ape-like creature named Lucy and a mythological land bridge
between Asia and North America...


Janice Klein
Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College
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>It is truly sinister that increasingly vocal political pressure is being
>brought by such small, but apparently ever more powerful, groups on those
in education, libraries and museums to demand "equal representation" of
>their "alternative" views - no doubt as a prelude to the eventually banning
of scientific orthodoxy.


Patrick Boylan

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