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Nov. 14, 2006

Evolution should not be taught in High School

Posted in Seriously

 I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes on evolution recently when over at SusannahCox's blog.   She posted an article written in newscientist.com that was very anti-homeschooling.  I actually found the author's lack of logic, reasoning and facts laughable.

 

But anyway, on to one of my favorite quotes regarding evolution:

 

  "One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, was ... it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years and there was not one thing I knew about it.
    That's quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long. ...so for the last few weeks I've tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people.
    Question: 'Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true?'
    I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence.
    I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said, 'I do know one thing – it ought not to be taught in high school'."

 

Dr. Colin Patterson,
Senior Palaeontologist. British Museum of Natural History, London. Keynote address at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City,

November 5,1981

 

For more interesting quotes on evolution, visit this site from Answers in Genesis.

 

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