Mike Gravel on teaching evolution
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.1069
While there is no controversy in the scientific community over the basic facts of evolution, advocates of creationism continue to challenge the teaching of evolution in U.S. schools. Do you believe in natural evolution as a fundamental biological process? Would you advocate keeping creationism in its various incarnations, including intelligent design, out of public school classes?
Gravel is quoted by LiveScience as stating that creationism should not be taught in schools:
We thought we had made a big advance with the Scopes monkey trial … My God, evolution is a fact, and if these people are disturbed by being the descendants of monkeys and fishes, they’ve got a mental problem....That ends the story as far as I’m concerned.”
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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org
