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...Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Todd Murphy/Portland and Dick Thompson/Washington...
...Sciences, issued a joint statement on Friday decrying the religious and political pressure that has intimidated school boards and publishers around the country into choosing the most watered-down textbooks on evolution. ?This is an issue with a three-generation shelf life,? says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. ?Here we are on the threshold of the millennium and we?re still debating this...
...shouldn?t be surprising. ?Evolution is one of the most significant ideas of the last century,? says Kluger, ?and for some it has come into conflict with fundamental religious beliefs.? That there should be tension between the realms of science and theology is normal, and to some extent healthy for both. It sharpens the arguments and the inquiries. But if the teaching of evolution is pushed out of the schools, says Kluger, ?information will be withheld from students and the long-range potential will be to crimp scientific development.? There may be another casualty: the enlightening possibility of reconciling...
...Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Dick Thompson/Washington
...Jeffrey Kluger...