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Letter: Creationism study belongs in Kansas

Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1999 | 9:30 a.m.

Just as the National Rifle Association claims that street gun laws are a back door to the elimination of the right to bear arms, so is the teaching of creationism the back door to the breakdown of the separation of church and state doctrine.

To equate creationism with the science of the theory of evolution is like equating astrology with astronomy. Didn't Dorothy of the "Wizard of Oz" come from Kansas? How about that for a subject to study.

ARTHUR SHAPIRO

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