EVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS
Sir, —“How Things Began,” being broadcast to schools, teaches the transformation of fishes into amphibians, amphibians into reptiles, reptiles into birds or mammals, all in gradual stages by chance variations and natural selection. Professor Vialleton, Faculty of Medicine. Montpellier, says it is impossible for one animal to change by small stages into another of fundamentally different structure and function. Fossils bear him out: every form is complete at the first appearance. The evolutionary gaps have not been filled. I have applied to the Minister of Broadcasting for permission to broadcast facts against evolution. Those who agree with me should write to the Minister. Children’s minds are better trained by studying both sides of a theory than by blind acceptance of one side only.—Yours, etc., •D. S. MILNE. Lower Hutt, May 4, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25177, 7 May 1947, Page 10
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