On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Today's biggest br newspaper has a huge story about
the return of Creationism to USA classes. It has the
general flavour of "look how those USAns are stupid
to believe this nonsense".
Now, the interesting question for me is, why does this
essentially only happen in the United States? The US
is the most religious industrial nation, so I have to
ask - do Christian Third World nations even teach
about evolutionary theory? Do they have debates over
whether it is taught? Why _just_ here? I honestly
have no idea, and would be very curious as to anyone
else's thoughts on the subject.
In part, it is because there are well-organized,
well-funded groups behind the USA's anti-evolution
crusade.
Dave
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