Unfinished business: evolution offers an explanation of original sin.(ESSAY)(Essay)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: September 28, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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What would you do if you walked into a modern hospital and saw a poster on the wall telling you, in all seriousness, that you could catch malaria by breathing the "bad air" in swamps? Would you march up to the director's office and demand the hospital stop practicing medicine that was centuries out of date? Would you think in horror of the patients whose disease might go improperly treated? Or would you just slump against the watt, stare at the white-coated staff strolling by and wonder: What else don't they know?

Such things do happen--not so often ...

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