Re: [asa] The term Darwinism

I've been reading the exchange between Dennis and?Ted today regarding the ASA publication?"Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy".

I agree with Dennis that the average reader will get the impression that the booklet expresses the position of the ASA.? I'll?defer to the expertise of others with regard to the degree to which it misrepresents our current (2009)?understanding of biological evolution, particularly with regard to humans.

Ted is certainly right that replacing TSCC with something that better reflected current understanding?would be a major undertaking.? Quite possibly worthwhile, but requiring a lot of effort.

But there is a simpler step the ASA could take in the meantime.? If TSCC is really as outdated?as Dennis says, why does the ASA *still* sell it (according to the "Publications" tab on the ASA website)?? Maybe the first step, to at least remove the negative effect Dennis pointed out, should be for this publication to go "out of print" and for ASA to stop distributing it.? Then if desired?we can work on something positive in the longer term.

Allan (ASA member)
Dr. Allan H. Harvey, Boulder, CO, steamdoc at aol dot com
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Received on Mon Jul 6 18:21:38 2009