Darwin’s birthday was February 12. What a brilliant man he was. Unfortunately, not everyone shares my opinion. Today I received my copy of Penn State Research, a magazine dedicated to publicizing findings by Penn State faculty. I was most interested in an article by Michael Bezilla entitled “High school biology teachers reluctant to endorse evolution in class.”
Two Pol. Sci. profs, Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer, using data from a nationwide survey of nearly a thousand public high school biology students, found that 60% of teachers avoid teaching any evolutionary theory or teach evolution only at the molecular level, hoping to avoid controversy. They also found that 13% of the teachers “explicitly advocate creationism or intelligent design.”
So here we are, 213 years after Darwin’s birthday, still pretending that scientific evidence doesn’t matter, and we can make up stuff based on biblical writings.
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