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Maybe it would be helpful if we would more often and more loudly make the point that IF ideas derived from work on evolution were being taught in schools AS some kind of religious article of faith, THEN WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THIS WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Once we have made that point clear, we can go on to clarify how very different that would be from the teaching that does go on in public school science classes.

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Congressman Waxman demands answers and correction on the omission of Evolutionary Biology. The list is being corrected, but there are continuing concerns, and we must urge Congressman Castle to investigate …

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Two of the authors of Traipsing into Evolution, will be on CSpan-2’s BookTV this weekend in a 90-minute program airing 3 times: first at 7pm EDT Saturday, with final showing midnight Sunday night.

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Evolutionary Biology is being restored to the list, but concern remains over “potential dangers of having the Department of Education involved in curricular matters,” rather than “the National Academy of Sciences or some other autonomous body …”

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Where’s a good “explanatory filter” when we need one? Which do you suppose is the “best explanation,” in terms of probabilities: (1) this single specific omission was purely a random “mutation” of the list (as the DoE people are now saying), or (2) it happened by intentional design?

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The Delaware/Philadelphia PBS station WHYY will rebroadcast the P.O.V. documentary “The Hobart Shakespeareans” on Saturday night/Sunday morning, September 3, at 12:30am. (It is not presently scheduled for broadcast again in MD or NJ the next two weeks. Elsewhere, check your local PBS affiliate.)
A piece by Jay Mathews on washingtonpost.com (Augus 6, 2006) features Rafe Esquith (whose [...]

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