On Dec 11, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:

> my introductory Astronomy and Biology class "Life in the
> Universe" at UCLA covered various theories of evolution.

Irrelevant, I think.  The complaints are mostly about K-12 education.
Part of my claim is that it's a bit silly; K-12 education in MANY 
subjects
is so cursory that singling out the month or three of science that 
covers
evolution (over the 12 years of "science" education), most of which 
isn't
any more detailed than "species are related and we believe that more 
advanced
species have evolved from lower species", and "ontogeny recapitulates 
phylogeny."

BillW
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