paleonet Not only in the USA do creationsist/IDs abound amongst Christians

["Kenneth A. Monsch" <kmonsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately it is not true that creationism/ID is an American-only
problem. I have lived in the Caribbean, the Netherlands, the UK, and now I
live in Poland. Creationism was everywhere I have lived and I'm sure it's
everywhere and everywhere it looks scary. It also seems to be everywhere
where I've NOT lived, for example a former fellow student of mine is now a
preacher in Belgium and once sent me an anti-evolution sermon to proofread!
In countries with a muslim background there is also creationism (ever
received spam mails of Harun Yahya's organisation?).  In Poland there is
also a breed of radical conservative catholicism that denies evolution. A
main spokesperson of this sort of creationism is now even an Europarliament
MP for Poland! The party he represents is becoming influential in this
country-I can imagine them pressuring the govrnment to remove evolution from
education. Because the government itself is even more conservative than
George Bush and has, if you ask me, no backbone, it would comply. Of course
we can't deny that the trouble with creationism and ID is far worse in the
USA than it is anywhere else, but scientists everywhere should be at least
aware of it, that the threats we talk about here are real.

PS: in reply to Michael Kishel's earlier appeal I respond "I".

Ken Monsch, Wroclaw, Poland
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Harris" <harrisj@valornet.com>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: paleonet Living Pterosaurs soon on display (S-P-A-M 4.17/4.00)


The Catholic church is behind us on this one--and, in case you hadn't
noticed, it is a huge organization. And the new Pope just clarified
that the Christian religion (a la Catholic) and evolution do not
conflict.

Only in this country do creationsist/IDs abound amongst Christians.

Judith