Sentences with phrase «to teach evolution»

It could be said you cross the line by teaching evolution in schools.

You have been challenged to provide the name of a single university or college that does not teach evolution as part of their biology curriculum.

You only have to name one major university that does not teach evolution.

It's a worthwhile effort, given the current controversy over teaching evolution in public schools.

One union supporter said those who teach evolution would be fired.

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

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

I attended Christian schools that had no problem teaching evolution.

How do you see teaching evolution in schools changing in the next five years?

Or what about the one that demands to teach evolution despite community pressure not to do so?

Seriously, teach evolution as a core theme in science from the early grades.

Then suddenly he asked: «Why don't I have you arrested for teaching evolution from that text and bring the whole thing to an end?»

Synopsis: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism.

In addition to being a rock star, Graffin is also teaching evolution at UCLA and this month released a new book.

A unanimous state board of education in Texas has endorsed the concept of teaching evolution by way of adopting 11 new biology textbooks, all of which cover the politically sensitive topic.

No, it just teaches evolution.

Now, in a new study of students preparing to become science teachers, the same pair of researchers focuses on where this «wishy - washiness» on teaching evolution comes from.

One problem, the researchers say: breaking the «cycle of ignorance,» in which teaching students lack good role models for teaching evolution because they weren't taught the subject well in high school or college.

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?

A group of scientists from a respected Cleveland university is endorsing a candidate for the Ohio state board of education because the incumbent he's opposing has voted against teaching evolution in the state's schools.

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

Though Scopes lost, fundamentalist Christians were mocked in the press as «anti-intellectual rubes,» and a number of states suspended pending legislation that would have made teaching evolution illegal, says David Felten, author of «Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity.»

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.

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

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

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

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 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:

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.

He did not remember teaching evolution, but he had used the standard textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology, which contained a short section on the subject.

d. To avoid teaching evolution is to avoid teaching basic science.

It is vital that every young person receives a broad and balanced education including teaching evolution as the only evidence - based view of how life came to be.»

Drawing from focus groups held with 35 teacher - trainees at four universities in the Pennsylvania, they find that future science teachers often lack the knowledge, conviction, and role models needed to teach evolution with confidence.

A new study shows that «[t] eachers lack the necessary knowledge, conviction, and role models to teach evolution properly,» Mervis wrote.

We tend to teach evolution using vertebrate examples because it is easier to explain the transitions from fish to amphibia, from reptiles to birds and mammals and so on.

In 1925, a substitute teacher named John Scopes was arrested for illegally teaching evolution in a Tennessee science class.

The powerpoint is designed to take students through the Scopes Trial, which addresses the controversy surrounding teaching evolution in the USA.

Use this to teach about skeletal structure (organ systems), to compare homologous features between humans and apes whilst teaching evolution, or as a fun activity for your «Science club»!

Textbook challenge: A Nassau County resident files a challenge to a science textbook, saying the district should «no longer purchase books teaching evolution as proven scientific fact or books that present evolution as proven fact.»

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This also means that the union has supported groups and candidates that call homosexuality and abortion sinful; authored voter suppression laws; tried to classify abortion as homicide; critiqued teaching evolution; and called Democratic leaders like President Barack Obama «Obummer» and socialist.