lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) (04/06/84)
"NAS Moves to Counter Creationist Challenge" is the headline of a news item in the 23 March 1984 issue of SCIENCE. The article states that: The National Academy of Sciences has put out a slick, handsomely illustrated booklet for science teachers that explains why evolution is a science and creationism is not. SCIENCE AND CREATIONISM has been mailed out to all the school superintendents and public high school science department chairmen in the land. Additional mailings are planned to religious and other groups. The article gives a little background and notes that this action puts the NAS in opposition to Reagan, who has endorsed balanced treatment of evolution and "Biblical theory." I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to see the thing, but it sounds like it might be hard to get a hold of one, at least for a while. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew