Science, religion, and public school education.

The Humanist | May 1, 1998| | Copyright

Creationists and other fundamentalist Christians continue their attempts to introduce their ideas into American school classrooms. Their efforts become monotonous, wearisome, and absurd, but they must not be ignored. Too often in the debates about the findings of modern science, the biblical thinking that lies in back of creationist efforts is ignored.

Over thirty years ago, in the Beverly Hills home of one of his supporters, I met with the famous South African paleontologist Louis Leakey. He was talking about discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge that traced human ...

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