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To the Editor:
I’m convinced people tend to see what they want to see, hear what they want and believe what they want. Facts only get in the way. Some years back, I read a few chapters in my daughter’s grade school textbook that helped me to understand today’s public education learning system. I read the part that explained how humankind came into existence, the chapter on evolution.
There was a two-page pictorial showing the evolutionary sequence step by step from a small monkey through the different primates all the way to a man wearing a suit and a woman in a formal evening dress. After the last primate in the chain (which all in the pictures exist today), was the “missing link” that tied the primate kind to humankind. Even the evolutionist admits that we are still searching for the “missing link.”
In no way can evolution (amoeba to man) qualify as “scientific.” It is impossible to meet the criteria of the scientific formula, yet it is presented as a fact and not a theory. The next chapter dealt with how cows were bad for the world. It stated that cows “belch,” which gives off methane gas being harmful to our atmosphere. Therefore, cows are bad. The rip against cows continued, which conflicted with today’s pseudo-science. The text stated another reason cows are bad is they require lots of grazing land that could be used for cultivation to feed a starving world. Now that thought has changed because of the human-caused global warming scare, grazing-land is more environmentally friendly because it absorbs CO2 (carbon dioxide), keeping the carbon in the ground and out of the atmosphere. Plowing the soil for cultivation purposes is not a good environmental practice.
I talked to Karl Kozel, a local farmer, of whom I have great respect for his knowledge on agriculture. Karl said no-till farming works OK for a while on some soils, but eventually you have to break the soil in order to provide a good seedbed. So what will our children be taught in the next generation of liberal textbooks?
Don’t drill for oil, don’t plow the land, you still came from monkeys and cows. Well, they’re still bad for our environment (CO2). We should get the federal government out of education and return that duty to the states as it was before Jimmy Carter came along in 1980. 
Howard W. Hall
Shawnee