Pass &, Tho Herald. Friday, March 20, 1901”

Creationists create special hassle for teachers —

ADBOTSFOD, B.C. (CP)
— Lorne Payne has been
teaching Darwin's theory of
evolution to high school
eigy students for 15 years but
pressure has been mounting
for five years for him to give
the philosophy of specialized
efeation equal time.

‘For four of those years, be
sayn, the message was low
key but last year it grew to

the point that members of a
fundamentalist sect
threatened. to pull their

- Children out of school if the

philosophy of creationism
not emphasized
Properly.

"y really felt some threat
at that point,” Payne sald in
an interview, .
Last month, the school dis-

Macho answers
‘are tough

- The little girl sighed,
Yalsed ber limpid, innocent
brown eyes aloft and lowered
the newspaper.
“Daddy —
*macho?’”

“* Hoo, boy, if ever there was
m question not to be an-
swered with an absent-
minded ‘‘ask your mother,"’
such was the query just
placed upon the order-paper.
_ The Spanish-English’ dic-
ftonary was obviously called
for.

_ “MACHO — nm. male;
male piece or part; tap,
screw tap; book to catch hold
in an eye; bolt of a lock;
spur, buttress, abutment;
sledgehammer: block in
which an anvil is fixed;
mould for bells; square
anvil; blockhead."

She frowned in con-
centration.

“<“But, it says right here on
the frong page that, in the
first such survey ever
férpetratedin Canada, it has
béen determined that ‘men
are leaving their macho
ways behind.”

what's a

By George, she was right!

Someone named Janis
Scott who “compiled the
results” is quoted as saying
the whole thing comes as “a
Pleasant aurprise,”’

“It destroys a number of
macho stereatypes.”’

The unclouded brow
wrinkled once more.

“are you *macho,” daddy?
I seem to recall mummy
employing the appellation
‘blockhead’

ehman's.”

“Possibly we are con-
fusing ‘macho’ with
‘machismo,’ the Spanish for
the need to prove one's
virility or courage by daring
action. It does not apply in
my case,

“Perhaps ‘masochism’
might be closer to the mark
— that form of perversion in
.Which someone derives
Pleasure from his own pain
or humiliation, At least, that
was your mother’s
assessment of that par-
ticular evening.”

~ Via rail looks

-MONTREAL (Cl) — Via
Rail Canada Ltd. hopes it
‘will never have another
Christmas season like the
last one. And to make sure
things go better next time, it
is looking at expensive modi-
fications to its aging fleet,

‘Problems arvse during the
holidays when old equipment
could not stand up to the
record-breaking cold that
gripped Eastern Canade,
Gagging the mercury down
below -30 for days at a time.
“Many trains were delayed
anda feew taerr nn ceeccn-
cétce ght when heating
systems froze. Almost every
plece of equipment was in
seryice to meet heavy
holiday demand, so no
Spares were available,
"The majority of our
equipment depends on steam
healing, and when you
Gambine those temperatures
with the wind chill factor
created by a moving train,
fhe locomotives just can't
generate enough steam to
meet the demand,” said Jim
Foster, Via's manager of
“The average passenger,
maware of the extremely
Afficult conditions we were
working under, knew only
that our equipment was
breaking down, that there
were intolerable delays, and
that many cars were gener-

aly cold and = un-
comfortable.”
‘Via has Jooked at two ways

of making its trains more
reliable in cold weather, One
was to pipe hot anti-freeze
through the cara instead of
steam, but triais last month
were disappointing, Foster
said.

_ Another possibility is to
gonvert older passenger
trains to electric heating.

‘The coat of conversion and
reconditioning would be at
fdast $200,000 a car, cheap
chmpared with the §1-million
ptice tag on new coaches.
Electric-generating units or
new locomotives with higher
penerating capacity would
also have t be purchased.

-1 Elghty-seven per cent of

Vie's «854 pieces of
passenger-carrying
equipment are more than 25
of

FB

« to better times

years old, many of them
refurbished. Only 43 coaches
are less than 20 years old.

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trict serving this Fraser
Valley community cast of

Vancouver passed a policy

requesting teachers to
provide equal instruction on
Darwin and the creationism
Philosphy.

Payne now tries to present’

hia students with both points
of view, without stressing
either as fact.

“I think I go out of my way
more than I ever have in the
past not to present a
dogmatic approach to
Darwinism,” he said. “I
treat the Darwinian theory
as a theory which docan’t
have all the answers.”

Ken Pastro has taught
biology at the same schoo!
for 10 years, but unlike
Payne, he says be has never
been. the victim of any
community pressure. -

“My interpretation is that
they (the school district)

‘Teachers .

want us to temper our ap-
‘proach to Darwinism and to
say that the theory of Dar-
winigm is not absolute. The
only directive we've had is
not to present the one theory
fo the exclusion of the other.
We don’t teach comparative
religion.”

Both Payne and Pastro say

they cite evidence both for
and against Darwinian
evolution im class so the
students can decide the
matter for themselves.

“We present it fram a very
realistic polnt of view,"
Pastrosaid. “And if I were to

teach in another school, I'd |

teach it the same way.”
But their approach is not
ope shared by most B.C.
science teachers, says
Anand Atal, B.C. Science
‘Association

president,

has no official position on the, ©
matter because most science
teachers do not regard

on facts," Atal sajd. .
“Creationism is based on

punching holes in the

creationism as a valid evolution theory."
theory. ‘ He says the only way crea-
"A theory bas to be based tionism will ever receive

P.O, Box 7654
Saskatoon, Sask,

widespread acceptance in
public schools is if its
proponents .can present
better evidence in support.

Meanwhile, Abbotsford
students said in interviews

they accept the Darwinlan
theory as the better option
and would not change their
minds if creationism had
been given equal emphasis
in past classes.

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