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Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Evolution
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:00:14 -0500 (EST)
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Isn't amazing that the most scientific of nations still struggles with a question that was settled ages ago?
Still more amazing that (American) creationists cann't seem to make the distinction between the origin of life and Darwinian evolution once life has originated?
(The origin of life on earth is still hotly debated among scientists, and is far from being settled unequivocally.)
Yet, evidence of Darwinian evolution is all around us! E.g. domestication of animals & plants, animal & plant breeding (remember the 'Green Revolution or GM foods?) & plants, development of resistance to drugs by disease causing organisms, and to some herbicides by plants, etc, etc.
Even more astounding is that, unlike Darwin, we know the mechanism that drives evolution: Mendelian genetics. We also know the structure of DNA, down to the molecular level -- again unlike Darwin. Entire genomes have been sequenced and news widely circulated -- outside of elite stuffy scientif journals. We now know about the genetic basis of disease such as sickle cell anaemia, etc etc. Further, Man has started, if only gingerly, to do such things as 'gene-splicing', etc.
It boggles the ming to think of how unimaginative (daft?) one has to be to reject or ignore or misinterprete such an avalanche of evidence, all in favor of Darwinian Evolution!
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Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Evolution
December 12, 2002
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The state school board unanimously approved on Tuesday
standards that more strongly advocate the teaching of
evolution while letting students fully criticize the
legitimacy of the theory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/education/12EVOL.html?ex=1040795213&ei=1&en=c2f05e01a9a47383
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