[net.origins] NAS booklet on Creationism

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