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Dorothy Nelkins is distressed. As she shows us in Science Textbook Controversies and the Politics of Equal Time (MIT Press, $12.95), there is abroad in the land a stinging backlash against the dogmatic teaching of Darwinian evolution, and this has all good secularist humanists worried.

Miss Nelkins, who is on the faculty at Cornell, recounts the numerous recent episodes in which religious believers have protested the bland promotion of Darwinian theory as fact, demanded equal time for creationist views concerning the origin of things, and opposed adoption of course materials (such as the federally funded MACOS project) which operate on materialist-relativist premises about human life.

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Dorothy Nelkins is distressed. As she shows us in Science Textbook Controversies and the Politics of Equal Time (MIT Press, $12.95), there is abroad in the land a stinging backlash against the dogmatic teaching of Darwinian evolution, and this has all good secularist humanists worried.

Miss Nelkins, who is on the faculty at Cornell, recounts the numerous recent episodes in which religious believers have protested the bland promotion of Darwinian theory as fact, demanded equal time for creationist views concerning the origin of things, and opposed adoption of course materials (such as the federally funded MACOS project) which operate on materialist-relativist premises about human life.