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More on The South and Evolution
Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural and educational values, not just in The South, but in 40 of the 50 states:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40839-2004Dec6.html (registration required, but if anyone wants me to post the article, I will. Just ask.)
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Fresh Challenges in the Old Debate Over Evolution
By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 7, 2004; Page A14
David Jackson's life straddles all the fault lines in the battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Jackson is a professor of science education at the University of Georgia's College of Education in Athens. He believes to his core that science has proved valid Charles Darwin's theory of how life on Earth developed from a common ancestry and why life has such diversity.
About half the students he teaches to become middle school science instructors and to teach evolution themselves believe that God created the Earth 6,000 years ago, he said. Scientist friends tell him not to teach those students because anyone with those beliefs "shouldn't teach." But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it. (/quote)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40839-2004Dec6.html (registration required, but if anyone wants me to post the article, I will. Just ask.)
(quote)
Fresh Challenges in the Old Debate Over Evolution
By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 7, 2004; Page A14
David Jackson's life straddles all the fault lines in the battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Jackson is a professor of science education at the University of Georgia's College of Education in Athens. He believes to his core that science has proved valid Charles Darwin's theory of how life on Earth developed from a common ancestry and why life has such diversity.
About half the students he teaches to become middle school science instructors and to teach evolution themselves believe that God created the Earth 6,000 years ago, he said. Scientist friends tell him not to teach those students because anyone with those beliefs "shouldn't teach." But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it. (/quote)
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor
For email, replace numbers with English alphabet.
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[nq:1]Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural and educational values, not just in The South, but in ... But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it. (/quote)[/nq] Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends.
- [nq:1]Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural and educational values, not just in The South, but in ...
- But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.
- (/quote)[/nq] Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends.
- Anyone who has allowed themselves to be convinced that the Bible has to be taken literally is hardly fit to be an educator.
- Maybe the US should draft in an army of less gullible teachers from overseas?
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[nq:1]Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural and educational values, not just in The South, but in ... But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it. (/quote)[/nq]
Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends. Anyone who has allowed themselves to be convinced that the Bible has to be tak
Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends. Anyone who has allowed themselves to be convinced that the Bible has to be tak
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[nq:2]Here's a depressing article about the state of American cultural ... sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it. (/quote)[/nq]
[nq:1]Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends. Anyone who has allowed themselves to be ... Americans say all Jews today are responsible for the death of Jesus, as some literal interpretations of the Bible suggest.
[nq:1]Although Jackson has a point, I tend to agree with the scientist friends. Anyone who has allowed themselves to be ... Americans say all Jews today are responsible for the death of Jesus, as some literal interpretations of the Bible suggest.
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CyberCypher infrared:
[nq:1]About half the students he teaches to become middle school science instructors and to teach evolution themselves believe ... teach." But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my experience for tha
[nq:1]About half the students he teaches to become middle school science instructors and to teach evolution themselves believe ... teach." But he tells them it is his job to make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my experience for tha
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[nq:1]CyberCypher infrared:[/nq]
[nq:2]About half the students he teaches to become middle school ... make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my ... then, do they get into college-level courses in the USA, and sometimes even graduate? It doesn't seem
[nq:2]About half the students he teaches to become middle school ... make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my ... then, do they get into college-level courses in the USA, and sometimes even graduate? It doesn't seem
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[nq:1]CyberCypher infrared:[/nq]
[nq:2]About half the students he teaches to become middle school ... make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my ... then, do they get into college-level courses in the USA, and sometimes even graduate? It doesn't seem
[nq:2]About half the students he teaches to become middle school ... make sure that his students understand evolution, not believe it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my ... then, do they get into college-level courses in the USA, and sometimes even graduate? It doesn't seem
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Chris Malcolm wrote on 08 Dec 2004:
[nq:1]In my first day as a biology student at Edinburgh university I was rather startled by the muffled snorts from ... 40 years ago. I still haven't quite recovered from the opinion of American scientific education which that encounter gave me.[/nq]
I can assure you that 50 years ago the best and the brightest American students were taught the theory of
[nq:1]In my first day as a biology student at Edinburgh university I was rather startled by the muffled snorts from ... 40 years ago. I still haven't quite recovered from the opinion of American scientific education which that encounter gave me.[/nq]
I can assure you that 50 years ago the best and the brightest American students were taught the theory of
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[nq:1]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about in the first place. In my mind, and in my ... high school. It's difficult to see how anyone could get as far as tertiary level and still be a flat-earther.[/nq]
What you're missing is that it isn't ignorance on their part, it's indoctrination. As Mark Twain put it: "His trouble ain't so much ignorance, as knowing so many th
What you're missing is that it isn't ignorance on their part, it's indoctrination. As Mark Twain put it: "His trouble ain't so much ignorance, as knowing so many th
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[nq:1]"Bible-believing Christians should not "literally" accept all of the Bible. For example, some passages in the Bible are clearly symbolic and not to be taken literally..." http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4268news4-5-2000.asp[/nq]
The amusing thing is that the original meaning of
The amusing thing is that the original meaning of
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[nq:2]I still have trouble understanding how this situation came about ... as far as tertiary level and still be a flat-earther.[/nq]
[nq:1]What you're missing is that it isn't ignorance on their part, it's indoctrination. As Mark Twain put it: "His trouble ain't so much ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so!"[/nq]
It ain't so much the things we know that get us into trouble.
[nq:1]What you're missing is that it isn't ignorance on their part, it's indoctrination. As Mark Twain put it: "His trouble ain't so much ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so!"[/nq]
It ain't so much the things we know that get us into trouble.
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