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This is a self-reflective moment!  Beliefs do evolve: mutate randomly to find and create a niche, face selective pressures, and reproduce, and the whole process has a ruthless nature.  To borrow a phrase, maybe it's "Diamonds, genes, and beliefs are forever."
C


On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:

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> Scientific American has an interesting article in a series they are doing on
> evolution and the threat from creationists. This is on the pressures from
> creationists in classrooms around the world. Seems the threat to the
> scientist is not an isolated, if more extreme, incident.
> 
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=evolution-education-abroad&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_EVO_20110307
> 
> Evolution Abroad: Creationism Evolves in Science Classrooms around the Globe
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> Education experts suggest that in some cultural contexts one way to
> encourage acceptance of evolution is by *not* shunning religious beliefs
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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, martin weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scientist-imam-threatened-over-darwinist-views-2232952.html
>> 
>> This is the most bizarre situation. I think evolution is important, as you
>> might guess, but to threaten someone with death over it?
>> 
>> Martin
>> 

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