On August 7, NASA announced that it had "found evidence that strongly suggests primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago" (NASA press release).

In January 95 of this column, I reviewed the grand opening of the new evolution exhibit, "DNA to Dinosaurs," at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. I pointed out many inaccuracies in the exhibits, even bad evolution. Yet the brainwashing effect was tragically effective.

Evolution and creation, as ideas about origins, deal with the unobserved past. They agree fully on observational science, it's just the ideas about history that differ. But philosophers tell us that ideas have consequences, and sure enough, men's ideas about their origin affect their view of the present.