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	Some on this list may already know the web site Edge 
(http://www.edge.org/). If you don't I recommend it for stimulating 
articles, if you do I hope you'll forgive a reminder.

Recently Scot Sampson, University of Utah Museum of Natural History 
paleontologist, published an article about the need to to teach 
evolution in an integrated and relevant manner. His introduction 
reads:


Efforts to educate children and the general public about biological 
evolution have long suffered a severe crisis of relevancy independent 
of religious influences, and this crisis continues unabated. Even for 
those who accept its veracity in this country and others, evolution 
is generally (and mistakenly) envisioned as a process of the past, 
encompassed by abstract concepts that have little bearing on humans, 
let alone the future of Earth's diversity. This failure of education, 
while complicated by a number of factors, is due in large part to a 
lengthy history of fragmentation and compartmentalization within 
academia that has left us with a void between two fundamental ideas: 
ecology and evolution.

The complete article is:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sampson05/sampson05_index.html

Cheers,

Martin
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Martin Weiss, Ph.D
Vice President, Science
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111 th Street
Corona, New York 11368
718 699 0005 x 356

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