Speaking plainly against creationism.Speaking plainly against creationism If one-half of U.S. adults consider the biblical story of creation valid, as many polls and surveys show, then paleontologists are failing to communicate the theory of evolution clearly enough, according to Norman D. Newell Norman D. Newell (January 27, 1909 – April 18, 2005) was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor at Columbia University. Newell was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and , curator emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History American Museum of Natural History, incorporated in New York City in 1869 to promote the study of natural science and related subjects. Buildings on its present site were opened in 1877. in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Newell urges his colleagues to write more clearly, to write more often for general audiences and to work at the grass-roots level to improve science education in public schools so that the evolutionary theory of creation will be better understood. "I suspect that it is up to us to see that paleobiology pa·le·o·bi·ol·o·gy n. The branch of paleontology that deals with the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms. pa gets significant attention in our local classrooms," he says. |
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