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While agreeing with the comments of both Nina Simon and Alan Friedman  
on storytelling and the need for our institutions to promote  
fascinating narratives on evolution, I can't help but feel this is  
fighting the symptoms instead of  the disease.  As long as  
creationism is sanctioned by  the formal educational system and spoon- 
fed to children at school, attempts  to counterbalance this  
brainwashing via our exhibitions are but a drop in the ocean, however  
commendable. Children taught from a young age to see the world  
through the eyes of creationism will not see the light because they  
visited our exhibition, project, or programme on evolution. Our  
energy must primarily be aimed at  the root of the problem: lobbying  
both congress and senate to stop endorsing creationism as an  
alternative to the teaching of evolution in schools.

Diana Issidorides

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Dr. Diana C. Issidorides
Senior Scientist & Exhibition Developer
Science Center NEMO
P.O. Box 421
1000 AK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31205313201
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www.e-nemo.nl

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