The REALL News - September 1999

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font size="2"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank"><i><img alt="Get Acrobat Reader (712 bytes)" border="0" src="../../../images/logos/getacrobat.gif" align="right" width="88" height="31"></i></a><a href="reall-news-v07-n09.pdf" target="_top">Also available as an Acrobat PDF file</a> (8 pages, 76K file)<br> <i>You can download this issue as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. You will need the free <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank">Acrobat Reader software</a>, available from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe's web site</a>, to view it.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Volume 7<br> Number 9</b></td> <td> <h1 align="center">The REALL News</h1> <i> <p align="center">"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense."<br> -- James Randi<br> <br> </i></td> <td align="right" valign="top"><b>September 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <ul> <li><a href="kansas-evolution.html">Kansas Evolution Decision's Aftermath</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="you-dont-have-to-cheat.html">You Don't have to Cheat to Get it Wrong!</a>, by Bob Steiner</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="letter-to-the-editor.html">Letter to the Editor</a><br> <br> </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Wally Hartshorn</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <h2>Kansas Evolution Decision's Aftermath</h2> <p><i><b>Similarities in Illinois, Impacts in Presidential Race</b></i></p> <p><b>by David Bloomberg</b></p> <p><font color="#330033">A</font>s I’m sure most, if not all, of you already know, the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove evolution, and other references to the age of the Earth and universe, from its science curriculum. The result was an outcry that, frankly, gave me great joy.</p> <p>Now don’t get me wrong -- I certainly got no joy out of the backwards school board members who don’t have a clue about what science is. The joy I got came from the media pointing out that the backwards school board members had no clue what science is! How often is an issue this important to us trumpeted across the top of the <i>Chicago Tribune’s</i> front page? (8/12) Not to mention that they actually agreed with us!<a href="http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v07/n09/kansas-evolution.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" width="33" height="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div>    </body>