RE: paleonet It just keeps coming, in the US, Brazil, UK, Turkey, etc.

["Dr. Lisa E. Park" <lepark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The cover story of this week's Time Magazine profiles the major leaders in the Evangelical movement (mostly in the US).  It is a very interesting read.

 

My question is this: how much damage does the impact of religious fundamentalism (i.e. not teaching Evolution or the Big Bang) do to science (and K-12 education) in the United States?  Will it have a negative impact equal to how the space race of the 60's had a positive one?  Does this impact anyone else other than the US?  I guess it is the larger picture which interests me most.

 

Cheers,

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Jere H. Lipps
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 1:13 AM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: paleonet It just keeps coming, in the US, Brazil, UK, Turkey, etc.

Here's one more:

Thought you'd all be interested in this NY Times online article

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01evo.html?ei=5094&en=143526089b4b8af2&hp=&ex=1107320400&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1107284478-BCHQ8dVAxFIHDMfhOp0qnw