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Article: TEACHING CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION: THE DEBATE GOES ON...AND ON...(COMMENTARY)(Letter to the Editor)

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September 19, 1999
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The debate over teaching evolution vs. creationism is hardly new, and readers have had their say on the matter for weeks. Especially since the Kansas Board of Education banned the teaching of evolution.

But, among Pilot readers, Regent University law student Michael Park has further fueled the debate. Park's Sept. 10 op-ed column, ``Creationism: Evolutionists teach science fiction,'' praises the Kansas Board, stating that the board ``recognized that an education based on fiction is no education at all.''

The responses we've received to that column, and others on the controversy, keep coming in. Here are some of them:

Shades of Galileo and his ...

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