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Published online 24 September 2008 | Nature 455, 441 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455441a
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Creationism row forces out UK educator
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What is most disturbing about this whole episode is that three Nobel Laureates would choose to be informed by Tabloid misinterpretation than the scientific precision of their own Royal Society. Is this the standard the Nobel Laureate has sunk to? They aught to be ashamed of themselves. Robert Karl Stonjek
Could not scientists and clergy alike lay the evolution/creationism issue to rest before others lose their livelihoods? It is theater, without whimsy. Could not the passion and energy be spent on those very real issues concerning survival, such as global warming, alternative energy, clean water, increasingly dirty, tainted, and allergic food, etc? Even cloaking devices.