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This excerpt is from Apologetics Press http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2756
Is Creationism winning the debate?
The Smell of Fear is in the Air
by Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
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They are dreadfully scared! For over twenty-five years, everything has gone “their way,” and they have been able to fill textbooks with their own beliefs and speculations. But “the times, they are a changing”! Evolutionists all around the country realize that the stronghold they once held over science departments and the public-in-general is slowly losing its grip.
The March 23, 2005 issue of USA Today featured a piece titled “ ‘Call to Arms’ on Evolution” (see Vergano and Toppo, 2005). The article informed readers that just days earlier, Bruce Alberts, head of the National Academy of Science [NAS], had written to all academy members, urging them to alert him if they detected any threats to evolution. He called on academy members to “confront the increasing challenges to the teaching of evolution in public schools” (Vergano and Toppo). In his letter to academy members, he wrote:
I write to you now because of a growing threat to the teaching of science through the inclusion of non-scientifically based “alternatives” in science courses throughout the country. A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out that there are challenges to the teaching of evolution in 40 states or local school districts around the country today.... If these challenges have not yet reached where you live or work, they are likely to do so in time.... These challenges continue unabated across our nation (Alberts).
Is Creationism winning the debate?
The Smell of Fear is in the Air
by Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
Printer version | Email this article
They are dreadfully scared! For over twenty-five years, everything has gone “their way,” and they have been able to fill textbooks with their own beliefs and speculations. But “the times, they are a changing”! Evolutionists all around the country realize that the stronghold they once held over science departments and the public-in-general is slowly losing its grip.
The March 23, 2005 issue of USA Today featured a piece titled “ ‘Call to Arms’ on Evolution” (see Vergano and Toppo, 2005). The article informed readers that just days earlier, Bruce Alberts, head of the National Academy of Science [NAS], had written to all academy members, urging them to alert him if they detected any threats to evolution. He called on academy members to “confront the increasing challenges to the teaching of evolution in public schools” (Vergano and Toppo). In his letter to academy members, he wrote:
I write to you now because of a growing threat to the teaching of science through the inclusion of non-scientifically based “alternatives” in science courses throughout the country. A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out that there are challenges to the teaching of evolution in 40 states or local school districts around the country today.... If these challenges have not yet reached where you live or work, they are likely to do so in time.... These challenges continue unabated across our nation (Alberts).