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Some observations from the southern hemisphere

The issues revolving around "creationist (ID)  Verses Evolutionary
theory" do re-enforce how much work WE have left to do in communicating
to the public about

What science is and How is it done ( and the converse).

Given this is a shared, significant and fundamental challenge for us..
What are the steps open to the US based centres to jointly develop a
submission to the NSF ( please subtitute other agencies as apporpriate)
to fund the development of an exhibition, programs and resource
matterials that address this issue.

If the NSF ( and other similar agencies) can't see the value in this,
then I fear the case is already lost. I would like to think that a joint
submission from a wide range of institutions from across the US could be
sucsessful.


Such materials would not have to focus on JUST the ID vs EVO issue (
although it could- as its very clear example).. It could take the ID -
EVO "head on" or just have that as one of the several "case studies"..

I feel it's time to stop (just) talking about the weather and get some
resources to do something about it..



Dr Stuart Kohlhagen
Leader New Concepts
Quesatcon
Australia.....



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Subject: beating a dead horse?
 
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Barbara Forrest was on Larry King last night talking about the creationism
issue. Here is one question Larry posed, that in my opinion, shows us why
this issue is such a HUGE problem and why all scientists and educators
should be doing *something* to help:

KING: All right, hold on. Dr. Forrest, your concept of how can you
out-and-out turn down creationism, since if evolution is true, why are there
still monkeys?

Amanda

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