Anyway, I've see I've otten far more pseudomystical and philosophical than I
care to get.
Good luck, MC, in your efforts to pushing back the ignorance. No matter how
small your gains, I have a feeling they're still worthwhile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "m c" <midgatutordigests_at_yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:02 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Re: nanfa V1 #1467
> Farmers have always had an understanding of evolution,
> and have been harnessing it since farming began.
> Domestication, and other froms of species alteration
> though Human selection, are merely an acceleration of
> natural selection down an un-natural path. It is only
> because the species involved change relativly little
> over the lifetime of an individual generation of
> farmers, that they do not realize how much change has
> occured.
>
> By "as much as they need to know" I am only facing
> reality. Most of the students that I will be teaching
> will not leave the farm. And those that do will
> likely stray only as far as the factories and kaolin
> mines nearby. They also have a life time of
> indoctration in Creationism. Getting them to
> understand natural selection without turely
> "believing" in evolution is acceptible. It is not
> worth it in most cases to push any farther. I won't
> be producing very many bio tech workers.
>
> It is simular to race relations. Accepting other
> races as "equals" and allowing social events in mixed
> company and friendships is an achivible point, but
> getting people to accept inter racial dating....
>
> The reason that there are 87 churches in this county
> (that I found) is that 1\3 of them are "Black". There
> is no longer any seperation by church doctrine, but
> people still go to the church that their family has
> always gone to. The White folks go to the white
> churches, and the Black folks go to the black
> churches.
>
> I once spoke at a CME (Christian Methodist Epsitical,
> formerly Coloured Methodist Epsitical before some of
> their urban churches desegerated, don't ask me the
> difference between them and the A(frican)ME, we got
> both and I couldn't tell) Church. It was in an
> outlying area between the {White} United Metodist
> Church and the Afican Baptist Church. This is
> typical. (in Kite there are 2 white baptist churchs in
> the same association; one on either side of the White
> Methodist Church) I was told that there used to be an
> AME between the CME and the ABC, but they combined
> with the CME, though many of the AMEs moved onto
> another AME down the road rather than join the CME.
> These churches had been there since "Slave time". The
> White folks weren't meeting that night, but I did
> "steal" the congragation of the of the ABC and put
> them in the CME before their preacher got there. He
> was quite apprecitive that I did and they all got the
> Voting Machine Demo together. The the ABCs went back
> to their church for their sermon, and I ran over to
> the Primitive Baptist (white) Church on the otherside
> of the county for my 9PM show. Their membersihp in
> the PBA is under review for being too lively. They
> consider themselves to be "Bapticostals" and were
> really siked up because their guest speaker the next
> week was going to be a missonary from Zambia. Not a
> missonary from the U.S. to Zambia, but a missonary
> sent from Zambia to preach to the U.S. .
>
> Which I guess fits since when I was in school we had a
> Peace Corp worker sent to teach Spanish.
>
> This may all seem quite off topic, but it does
> demonstrate my working conditions and the reasons for
> some of the compromises that I will be making.
>
> It also explains why I have the endorsment and
> blessing of the CME as a teacher before my frist bio
> lecture. Also, the heads of the NAACP and SCLC are
> "very excited" that I will be joining the staff at the
> high school even though they know that as a member of
> The Sons' of Confederate Veterans we are on oppisite
> sides of the Courthouse Monument issue.
>
> Anyway, that is the News from 102 Chester Dr.,
> Wrightsville Ga, 31096
>
>
> --- Dave McNeely <dlmcneely_at_lunet.edu> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "nanfa" <owner-nanfa-digest_at_aquaria.net>
> > To: <nanfa-digest_at_aquaria.net>
> > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:20 PM
> > Subject: nanfa V1 #1467
> >
> >
> > >
> > > nanfa Monday, December 2 2002
> > Volume 01 : Number
> > 1467
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps whoever made the statement below would care
> > to expound -- to me
> > privately if this is not of list interest. I find
> > that few people know all
> > they need to know about evolution, even if they have
> > experiences that should
> > have prepared them to understand readily. As one
> > who teaches evolution at
> > several levels, believe me, getting people to know
> > "all they need to know"
> > is quite a difficult task.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > > The main thing will be getting them to
> > realize,
> > > > > without pushing too hard, that as farm kids,
> > they
> > > > > already know all that they need to about
> > evolution.
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