Mr. Hemmat might consider reading up on why evolution is "far from a proven
theory."

As we all should know by now, this is not insignificant stuff to Americans.
If creationism is NOT taught in its perspective, children will not learn
about the 'real world' around them -- that intelligent people do in fact
struggle with which theory is "the truth."   Children need to begin to
understand, through contradictions such as this, that the 'real world' is
full of ambiguities, and they might as well begin learning that early in
life.  Museums can help -- if human origin is a part of their program.  We
present artifactual evidence of humans and animals on this site several
thousand years before "creation" occurred, if one reads the Old Testament
literally.  We observe that not everyone accepts the reliability of carbon
dating, etc.

Ross Weeks Jr.
Tazewell Va
http://histcrab.netscope.net


From: Roy Hemmat <[log in to unmask]>
> "An overwhelming majority of Americans think creationism should be taught
> along with Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools, according to a
> new nationwide survey by an independent polling organization."
>>>>>>>
> Well ... this article goes on and on .. What I find most alarming
> personally, is the comment about evolution being a far from proven theory.
> It's a complicated subject to understand fully, to say the least. None the
> less ... there is, as many on this list are aware, overwhelming evidence
> for evolution. Evidently our schools are not properly communicating the
> mechanisms of gene pool variation over time (the definition of evolution).

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