Sentences with phrase «taught evolution»

Did you know that Scopes was, in fact, innocent because he had never taught evolution.

What do you think of the recent survey published in Science that showed that only 28 percent of biology teachers taught evolution effectively, 13 percent explicitly advocated for creationism, and the rest endorsed neither?

The five year study, found that those taught genetics first improved their test scores by an average of seven per cent more than those taught evolution first.

students who were taught evolution or neither evolution nor creationism in high school had significantly higher acceptance rates of evolution than those taught both evolution and creationism or just creationism;

Leah wrote: «I've had several uncomfortable conversations with pastors who have decried the evils of evolution because when I was teaching labs in graduate school I taught evolution.

[This doesn't mean they just taught evolution but likely would've introduced it into their curriculum.

My children are taught evolution.

I am a lifelong Christian who was taught evolution by Benedictine monks over fifty years ago.

In science class we were taught evolution.

Fortunately Mary, there are people out there who actually understand evolution, who have studied evolution and who have doc.umented and taught evolution, so that those of us with even a rudimentary education on the topic can dismiss your comment as nothing more than the desperate and childish attempt to cling to religion even as the rest of the world grows up and embraces reality.

I have always doubted whether he was really a Christian or not, because he went to a secular university for his education, where they taught him evolution.

You might have been taught evolution, but you didn't learn anything.

The 1925 «Monkey» trial of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher who taught evolution, drove fundamentalists underground, some say.

He NEVER taught evolution in any genuine science capacity because he was never trained in any of the sciences..

@Dogandponyshow You mean they shouldn't feel excluded like creationists feel excluded when being taught evolution?

It is an important issue and if you look around, the fanatics are the ones who put their faith in theories like evolution and they are forcing themselves on every aspect of life and Bill said it himself, he wants your child taught evolution and the evolutionist will fight to indoctinate every child.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Are you one of those people who think that teaching evolution in public schools is «anti-Christian»?

In Florida, professors teaching evolution have been attacked and had their cars vandalized.

And for the record teaching evolution is teaching a theory and does not necessarily contradict the concept of creationism.

awanderingscot «scripture does not teach evolution.

My favorite bumper stickers: «Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church» and «You can teach creationism in my school if I can teach evolution in your church.»

Fired anti-gay HGTV hosts: Teaching evolution is Satan's «toehold» in the classroom By David Edwards Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:23 EDT

Again, ALL university and colleges in the USA with tertiary level biology classes teach evolution as a fundamental component of biology.

I attended Christian schools that had no problem teaching evolution.

ALL university and colleges in Europe teach evolution as a fundamental component of biology.

When I was a teenager, my family moved to Dayton, Tennessee, a town famous for prosecuting and convicting a science professor for teaching evolution in 1925, and which sits right on the path of the old Trail of Tears.

I've wrestled with a lot of questions related to science and faith, especially given my location a mere two miles from the famous Rhea County Courthouse where John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution in a public school.

If teaching evolution will lead to people acting like animals then that should be a good thing, right?

By 1880, The American Naturalists, a science journal, reported nearly every major university in America was teaching evolution.

These are the same folks that teach evolution as a means to species, a notional hypothesis that is false.

Because it is fundamental to the understanding of modern biology, the faculty in the Biology Department at Baylor University, Waco, TX, teach evolution throughout the biology curriculum.

I'll be happy to have our school teachers teach evolution to our kids if they can explain to them in a scientifically valid way how the evolution process works.

mama - Today public schools teach evolution as a means to species as fact, even though science knows from the Global geological record and Dr. Gould's work that species occur rapidly followin a mass extinction; in violation of the same seperation claus.

Anyone who watches his shows (which I like but as a christian I follow creationism) knows he teaches evolution heavily.

I support teaching evolution and feel it is the best current theory to be taught in our public schools.

Teaching evolution in school 3.

There is not ONE mayor academic inti «tution that does not teach Evolution.

Teaching evolution and ridiculing creationism does not test the limits of academic freedom in public or private institutions.

Teaching atheism is like teaching that the Earth doesn't exist and teaching evolution is like teaching people that Transformers is a true story.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

And even in Tennessee today the law is on the statute books making it unlawful to teach evolution in the schools.

I think it's important for Christian colleges to transition into teaching evolution (both micro and macro, if you make a distinction) for a few reasons:

So my dad just returned from the International Forum on Higher Education for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities held in Atlanta, where the hot topic of the week was teaching evolution in Christian colleges.Francis Collins, author of The Language of God and founder of theBioLogos Foundation, spoke at the conference, urging professors and administrators to beware of placing students in the position of having to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith.

After trying to teach evolution and learning the truth about that and other false science (see piltdown man, etc) I have looked more at all offerings and just believe what I have found to be the truth.

See they can teach evolution in schools, not due it being a conspiracy against the poor persecuted christards like you but due to it being based on solid acceptable evidence... regardless of how stupid you may wish to continue to be on the subject, you don't change the facts.

I am very sure that creationists would say that teaching evolution is very complicated.

(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion

2) Everybody teaching evolution also teaches its failings.

You are exhibit A for why we need to teach evolution to our children — if we don't they might end up with your poor understanding of science.