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Re: Creationists as proponents of academic freedom
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	My only consoling though is that few if anyone reads the comments. However, it is probably only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as most people don't bother
to comment. Anyway it is depressing to read them. 

In the 40% or so of Americans who accept evolution I'd shutter to read some of their explanations.  Maybe they'd tend towards acceptance but probably not understanding.

Martin
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Charlie Carlson wrote:

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> I saw those too!  It's so much easier to do damage than it is to remedy damage, and it may have to do with our response to something as simple as a flip of the coin.  There was a great radio piece on NPR about why the housing market takes so long to recover after a market crash,  not exactly the same subjects or stakes, but the message is "somewhat" similar.  http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/28/134033237/what-a-coin-toss-has-to-do-with-the-housing-market
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> On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Jennie Dusheck wrote:
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>> Note the depressing posts in Comments by "goodscienceforyou." It takes so much longer to explain why such posts are wrong than it takes to write them.
>> Jennie Dusheck
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>> At 4:39 PM -0500 3/1/11, Martin Weiss wrote:
>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scopes-creationism-education
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>>> The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote
>>> Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools
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>>> Under the guise of "academic freedom" creationists are co-opting some old
>>> heroes of the fight to teach evolution in the classroom for their
>>> anti-science campaign
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>>> Martin Weiss, PhD
>>> Science Interpretation, Consultant
>>> New York Hall of Science
>>> mweiss at nyscience.org
>>> 347-460-1858
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