>http://www.alternet.org/story/93188/

>Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality

>By Nathan Schneider, AlterNet

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>       When Russia scared the United States half to death by launching the Sputnik ... The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study ...  setting forth a scientist-approved, evolution-based curriculum that schools eagerly adopted.  In the spirit of nationalism, Christians began folding evolution snugly into their faith

        This is false.  Mainstream Christian scholarship & doctrine, especially in the Roman version, had long before this overcome the misleading 'evolution or God' furphy.  That process began long before the USA's response to Sputnik.

RM