FREEDOM OF THE AIR
Sir,-May I make a plea for thorough instruction in our schools in biology. This would not only dispose of the "sex education" question, but would also help to relegate such people-as your correspondents "G.H.D." and "Sincere" to whatever limbo the "flat earth" theorists are banished to. It is certainly true that biological thought has made great progress since Darwin’s day. It does not follow that any biologist of repute would say that highly organised creatures such as Man appeared suddenly on the earth in their full glory. They are almost certainly the descendants of simpler forms of living in earlier times. All experimental evidence favours such a view. The development of our domestic plants and animals from wild types shows what can be done in the way of evolving new forms of living things from old. No one, as far as we know, has ever developed a new form of plant or animal by any other means than by breeding it from previously existine ancestors.
C. T.
WILLIAMS
(Kaiapoi).
Sir-I gather from J. E. Hamill’s letter that, since life in this world "would become flat, stale, and negative" without its proportion of shade, Heaven (minus wars and divorces) would be a very boring place and should be avoided at all costs. After all we have only three score and ten years in this world and when we get to the next we are there for-
ever,
H. M.
COX
(Wellington).
Sir,-Mr. Hulbert owes me an apology for mis-quoting the topic I discussed. A correspondent has since pointed out that this topic was "the theory of
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 5
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