Sermons

What did he say? “Those children in that high school don’t hear anything but Darwin and evolution. Somebody’s got to tell them the truth.” That echoed inside me, along with something else I remembered hearing about that particular high school down the street. I know a former student whose biology teacher hinted to her students that she believed more in the Biblical story of creation than she did in evolution, in spite of the fact that she was being paid to teach biology, not religion. I think she actually asked for a show of hands – evolution vs. Biblical creation, and she got overwhelming support for the Bible. Science by ballot. The University of Minnesota recently published a “study finding that many biology teachers simply downplay evolution or don’t teach it at all because they either fear controversy or are themselves sympathetic to creationism.” [Church and State, Nov 2003, p 6.]

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