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This made me think back to when I worked at the University of 
Arkansas (soo-eee!) where the curator of geology was also an 
impressive faculty member, but who made no bones about his belief in 
a creationism (sigh.)  People often quote Einstein's comment about 
God not playing dice with the universe, but I think he was in another 
class of minds altogether!
Beryl

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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>An interesting quote from the most recent (April 2005)
>Smithsonian magazine in an article that revisits Dayton, Tennessee
>(the site of the Scopes "monkey trial") follows:
>
>" Kurt Wise teaches science at Bryan. His credentials are
>impressive --- an undergraduate degree in geology from
>the University of Chicago and a PhD from Harvard, where he
>studied with the late Stephen J. Gould, the eminent paleontologist and
>anti-creationist.  Wise believes that God created the world and everything
>in it 6,000 years ago."
>
>As much as I love museums, I doubt very seriously if the exhibition hall
>or the IMAX theatre are likely spots for the conversion of such strongly held
>beliefs.
>
>In the case of exhibitions and programs related to evolution, I 
>feel we really are
>preaching to the choir.
>
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