An Ohio teacher’s decision to teach creationism and burn crosses into the arms of his students is alarming. Even more concerning is that this may be part of a concerted effort by extremist evangelicals to challenge a number of constitutional issues in an effort to effect a theocracy.
The results of the first national survey of teachers about evolution in their classrooms are in. Darwin would quiver in his boots to learn that in this day and age, one in eight American biology teachers teach creationism and intelligent design as a sound alternative to his theory. In fact, 13 percent of the country’s teachers think they can run an excellent biology class without even mentioning Darwin or evolution.
‘OH WHAT a piece of work is man,” wrote Shakespeare, long before Darwin suggested just how little work went into us. Somehow, that same process that gave us reason, language and art also left us with hernias, male nipples, impacted wisdom teeth, flatulence and hiccups
One in eight U.S. high school biology teachers presents creationism or intelligent design in a positive light in the classroom, a new survey shows, despite a federal court’s recent ban against it. The research also revealed that between 12 percent and 16 percent of the nation’s biology teachers are creationists. (more…)