Sentences with phrase «support teaching evolution»
I support teaching evolution and feel it is the best current theory to be taught in our public schools.
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The National Center for Science Education, which supports the teaching of evolution in public education, is closely monitoring the case.
If by «shove down your throats» you mean «teach supported scientific theory» then yes we do want to shove evolution down your throat.
Do you support evolution being taught in publicly funded schools?
Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.
Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:
E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.
WARNING: The teaching of Evolution and the acceptance of the 150 + years and mountains of gathered evidence that supports evolution is hazardous to one's faith (dEvolution and the acceptance of the 150 + years and mountains of gathered evidence that supports evolution is hazardous to one's faith (devolution is hazardous to one's faith (delusion).
The biology teacher, Scopes, whose trial for teaching evolution played so dramatic a role, was an active Methodist supported by fellow church members rather than an anti-Christian scientist.
«In Alabama, a state PAC recently went on the air with an ad attacking one of the Republican gubernatorial candidates for supporting the teaching of evolution in schools and for saying that parts of the Bible aren't true.
What has been overlooked in the whole furor is that many denominations fully support the science and teaching of evolution.
He further has said that science and faith pose no conflict for most religious people, including more than 12,000 Christian leaders who have signed the Clergy Letter Project in support of teaching evolution.
A lot of research supports the idea that teaching is crucial for the evolution of culture (New Scientist, 20 November 2010, p 38), but cooperative breeding helps to explain why humans are so particularly good at it compared with the other apes.
In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.
Regarding the former kind of issue (evolution and global warming are offered as examples), the authors argue that teachers should not remain neutral but rather teach specific respect for expert judgments and general respect for the expert «epistemologies» that support those judgments:
Paul extends his belief in teaching and student achievement by supporting change and teacher evolution.
This evolution is aided by the development of standards related to technology integration in teacher preparation programs (International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE] 2002b; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education [NCATE] 1997), national teacher education reports advocating technology integration (American Council of Education, 1999; National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 1996), awards and recognition for teacher education programs demonstrating exemplary technology integration (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2002; ISTE, 2002a) and federal grant initiatives that support the integration of technology in teacher education (United States Department of Education [USDOE] 2002).
«This new technology represents the next evolution in Seton Hall University's Mobile Computing Program to use technology effectively to support teaching, learning and institutional effectiveness while keeping pace with technology that appeals to our students.»
Long a defender of the teaching of evolution, the National Center for Science Education has recently launched an initiative to support and defend the teaching of climate change science.
NCSE is committed to helping teachers gain the confidence and support they need to teach evolution effectively.