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High School Biology Teachers in U.S. Reluctant to Endorse Evolution in Class, Study Finds

Seeded on Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:36 AM EST
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The majority of public high school biology teachers in the U.S. are not strong classroom advocates of evolutionary biology, despite 40 years of court cases that have ruled teaching creationism or intelligent design violates the Constitution, according to Penn State political scientists.

"Considerable research suggests that supporters of evolution, scientific methods, and reason itself are losing battles in America's classrooms," write Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer, professors of political science at Penn State…

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“The researchers found these teachers commonly use one or more of three strategies to avoid controversy. Some teach evolutionary biology as if it applies only to molecular biology…”

“…some teachers rationalize the teaching of evolution by referring to high-stakes examinations.”

“Finally, many teachers expose their students to all positions, scientific and otherwise, and let them make up their own minds.”

We are at a critical point in our nation’s history where myth and superstition, under the guise of theology, are on a collision course with reality and further future technological advancement. If this issue isn’t settled soon, we may as well resign ourselves to being dead last in everything while the rest of the world passes by. Only the ‘self-selected’ few who have who have bothered to get an un-biased education will be the ones who ‘make it’.

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