One of the things that I've been meaning to mention for quite some time is
that Christianity is not automatically anti-evolution, regardless of the
impression you might get from the newspapers or television. Indeed, it might come as
a surprise to find that the great majority of Christianity accepts
evolutionary biology wholeheartedly, without argument. It's just that this point of view
rarely leads the newscasts.

The annual Evolution meetings will occur at the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks in just a few days, and as usual, Notre Dame, the Loyolas, Brigham Young
and other religiously-oriented schools will have strong representations there.
For the vast majority of Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, and Mormons,
evolution, cosmology, geology or astrobiology are not controversial topics.

In that regard, let me show you something that I'm actually quite proud of:
the evolution and physiology lectures put together by sophomore and junior
girls at the Loretto Academy, El Paso. Loretto is a very highly regarded Catholic
girls high school. One hundred percent of their graduates apply for college,
and 100% of them are accepted. You can get a sense of the quality of the school
from its curriculum requirements:

     http://www.student.loretto.org/lorettoweb/curriculum.htm

The school requires four years of math, English, social studies, religion and
science & technology classes, and a great many of the girls take more than
that.

The girls' zoology presentations were assembled using QCShow. The choice of
the topic, the formatting of the PowerPoint slides, and the content of the
narration was wholly the choice of the girls. They put these lectures together as
their semester requirements for their zoology class, which just ended a few
days ago. You can see their work here:

     http://aics-research.com/qcshow/loretto.html

[An installed QCShow player will be necessary to view the lectures. To
download the player, please see:

     http://aics-research.com/qcshow/ ]

The girls mumble a little bit, they mispronounce a significant percentage of
the more technical words, and they have a few (sometimes significant) mistakes
in their presentations, but they're only sophomores and all-in-all, I'm
really very pleased with what they've done.

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As long as I'm going on about QCShow, the QCShow Author manual is now
complete and available for downloading. It's at:

      http://aics-research.com/qcshow/manual.html

With the completion of the manual this last week, the product is available
for purchase. The Player is free. The Authoring tool is $250.

While most of the people here may not have any requirement for creating your
own lectures, someone in your organization may well have some use for this
capability, so mention it to them when the occasion arises.

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Wirt Atmar

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