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Re: [Phys-l] "To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler, " said the group's late founder, D. James Kennedy.

But it is true. Name some Democratic candidates who have said they do not
believe in evolution. Nearly half of the original Republican presidential
slate and the current president do not "believe" in evolution. One
important person in TX education agency had to resign because she advertised
some lectures supporting evolution. TX is heavily Republican. Now let me
see which Red states have tried to promote ID in the schools, and which Blue
states??? Perhaps I should have said that the antievolutionists got into
bed with the Republicans, and have been welcome there. Beyond this the
current administration went out of their way to squash any scientific
statements that disagreed with their "beliefs". This is reminiscent of
Lysenkoism.

This of course does not mean that all Republicans think this way, but those
that do understand science have apparently not been prominent in the fight
against the anti-science attitudes. One does not know what tone the next
administration might set. But if it is Republican can it afford to alienate
an important part of its base. At one time both parties supported
environmentalism and science, but not now. BTW half of my life was in
upstate NY, so all Texans might not apply here.

We are all to blame for the atiscience attitudes because we have failed to
get the scientific attitude across to students.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


All Texans tend to stereotype - don't they?

Bob at PC

-----Original Message-----
From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John M Clement
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:52 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators

But my comment was quite true. I have not seen any Democratic
candidates who have disavowed evolution. At present the Republicans
have gotten into bed with the antievolutionists and antiscinetific
crowd. So we do have a political split between the proscience and
antiscience groups. This is a fairly recent phenomenon. It may
actually be part of the natural development of a proevolution social
mileau. The percentage of antievolutionists has been decreasing
during the last century. So this has now become an issue, while
previously the antievolutionists felt secure when they were in the
majority. This is precisely what happens when you have a scientific
revolution, or any shift in the general paradigm. There is disorder
and savage fighting before the new paradigm is established.