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"Facts" and Facts
SS51000 (SS51@NEMOMUS.BITNET)
Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:35:12 CST
I see that G. Laden was not an appropriate target for my barbs (not
flames, I hope) at obscurantism. On the subject of public
anti-creationism: I once passed up the chance to appear on a TV show in
Kansas City to defend evolutionism, when I learned that the interviewer
and audience would be fundamentalist Christians. Our University
president later expressed his relief that I had not accepted the
invitation, because he thought to have appeared in such a format would
have been demeaning to the University. It is important to teach
science; and it is important to avoid inadvertently reinforcing the
impression that there is a *scientific* debate between scientific
evolutionism and "scientific creationism." --Bob Graber
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