Scientists fight back (sorry, the Baltimore Sun has changed the url on this article and I can’t currently find the new one; meanwhile, read about the evolutionary scientist quoted below who’s waging this battle) with a new book on evolution and creationism, only one of which belongs in classrooms.

Mike Huckabee, you might guess, is a poster child for the need for such a booklet to take the the country’s schools.

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“Our public schools should present both evolution and creationism,” Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network. “I would not support public schools teaching only creationism. Evolution is a theory based on a lot of science, so it must be part of the curriculum.”

Members of the NAS panel also made their point: Although faith and acceptance of evolution need not be incompatible, creationism does not belong in a science classroom.

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“I would worry that a president who does not believe in evolution would not believe in other [scientific] arguments as well,” said Francisco Ayala, professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California, Irvine, who chaired the panel that wrote the book. “That is a way to lead the country to ruin. If all the other countries that are chasing us are behaving rationally, we are doomed.”

 

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