Re: Creationists win the schools in New Mexico

David L Evens (devens@uoguelph.ca)
15 Sep 1996 22:53:28 GMT

Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu) wrote:
: In article <51ccvm$73s@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, pete <VINCENT@reg.Triumf.CA> wrote:
: >
: >Presumeably the neighbourhood around Los Alamos doesn't suffer from these
: >problems. If I lived within 50 miles of there, I'd do my best to get my
: >kids into their schools (where the children of the 7000 employees of
: >the Los Alamos Nat. Lab go to school, and average marks are highest in
: >the nation).

: It's really ironic, then, that the creationist scientist who Governor
: Johnson put on the board of education, and who is behind stealth
: creationism move being discussed in this thread, is a physicist at Los
: Alamos National Labs!

Well, you cannot expect a physicist to neccesarily have any deep
understanding of biology.

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