From:    Chris Stassen
Subject: Re: Clinton and Creationism

Organization: The Lion's Den, San Jose
From: stassen@alc.com (Chris Stassen)
Message-ID: 1992Oct2.163843.10235@alc.com
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic

Bill Collum writes:
> Maybe I missed something, being neither a devout "beliver" nor an
> avowed "skeptic" (well, maybe more skeptical than most), but is
> "Scientific Creationism" really taught in public schools?

Yes.  I recall that a survey of high school biology teachers recently
showed that about 1/3 of them were creationists.

Two well-organized attempts to legislate equal time for creation
"science" in the public schools have gone down in flames, but there
are still some teaching it without a state-level requirement to do so.

(Schools teaching creationism is a topic of concern which is frequently
discussed in _NCSE Reports_.  Write to the National Center for Science
Education -- NCSE / P.O. Box 9477 / Berkeley, CA 94709 -- and ask for
a sample issue of the publication.)
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Chris Stassen                 408-943-0630                    stassen@alc.com