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It's one reason why I think the glacier doesn't move unless there's positive attraction and a slightly downhill direction.
C
On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:45 PM, martin weiss wrote:

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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. 
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> 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.
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> Martin
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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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