Here's another e-mail addressing the inability for students to set aside their religious bias to learn a little evolution over the summer...
I have just received this email from a student & would like advise about responding. I teach in a high school in WV & this student is a rising senior. The required reading for honors biology was "Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shubin.
"I found out Friday that there is a required summer reading for the class on evolution. Is there an alternative (non-evolutionist) book I could read since evolution is opposed to what I believe in? We have Dr. Jonathan Sarafati's book, Refuting Evolution, which presents scientific proof that counters the teachings of evolution. Would that be an acceptable alternative?"
Two years ago a fellow teacher was not supported by the administration when a similar situation arose. She was asked to create an alternate curriculum! She rightly asked "using which text from the school library?" I feel despondent that we even need to be having this conversation in 2009.
Is there a good site where I can point the administration so that this issue can be headed off before students head into my classroom on 26th?
The administration set a dangerous precedent... THERE IS NO SCIENTIFICALLY VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO EVOLUTION PEOPLE.
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This just upsets me! we can see Evolution in a petri plate in a matter of hours. How can religion refute something that has irrefutable proof? I wish I knew something to tell you to do beside telling them they are idiots. Our jobs are to educate the truth why are we science teachers constantly left out in the cold. No one says English and math teachers are wrong.
I don't just call them idiots. I call them idiots because they irrationally dismiss something without actually looking at and considering the evidence for it.
It's like acquitting OJ Simpson for murdering his wife. We don't understand the DNA evidence that connects him to her murder so we'll dismiss it altogether and work with what's not DNA-related. It's unacceptable gullibility.
I don't believe in coddling students for their ignorance. If they're constantly coddled, they'll never put in the effort to understand something because they have a predisposition to believe otherwise.
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