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"Dr. Lisa E. Park" <lepark@uakron.edu> schrieb: > 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. Hmm...you will probably have students who don't know anything of evolution. Sad, but not really any difference to the present. No, seriously...I follow this debate for several weeks now (though never had anything to say to it) and I don't think it will come to any point. I am really amazed by the measure of ignorance shown by the fact that evolution should not be taught in schools - but I ask myself wether this is really a major problem. When I follow your discussion it seems quite widespread but is it really so? Do you not add weight and importance to it by discussing this seriously instead of laughing at the stupidity of it? The upcoming of the evangelical movement is a different thing - but this evolution-thing is just a symptom of it. Anyway, there is no point in discussing evolution versus creation. And I deeply believe that the major problem is that the fundamentalist christians rather be god's creation than ape decendants. O.k. - I better not bore you anymore as I have nothing substantial to add. Greetigs from Jutta -- Dr. Jutta Lechterbeck Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Berliner Str. 12 73728 Esslingen 0711 66463131 lechterbeck@uni-tuebingen.de
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