Colin,



I"ll be very interested in your results. 



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From: Colin Purrington <[log in to unmask]>

Date:         Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:02:28 

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Subject: Re: Creation museum comments



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Since we're on the topic of evolution and creationism, I've be  

interested in any views on the influence of homeschooling parents at  

your institution.  I know that my local institutes (Franklin  

Institute, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Philadelphia Zoo) all  

have education offerings for the home school crowd.  If (if) this  

crowd is predominantly averse to teaching their kids evolution, the  

institutions get pressured to omit both classes and signage that  

might discuss descent with modification and natural selection.  This  

pressure might be purely indirect and economic -- classes like  

"Darwin goes to the zoo" during the day might not be hugely popular  

with fundamentalist parents, I suspect.  Furthermore, I have been  

told that many zoos have volunteers that seem to be predominantly pro- 

creationism, which might further encourage science institutions to  

avoid evolution.  Zoos in particular seem like THE place to discuss  

evolution, so it seems like there has to be SOME explanation for the  

general lack of evolution coverage.



Any experiences out there to share?



Colin Purrington

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