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But It Frees Up Two More Weeks to Teach Them How to Tell Gneiss from Schist

Aug 14, 2008

Olivia Judson's got a bee in her bonnet -- and the real question seems to be whether that bee was created in seven days or evolved over time from some ancestor insect.

In her op-ed in the New York Times, Judson predicts that this coming school year will see even more battles over teaching evolution and/or intelligent design. "A common consequence of the arguments is that evolution gets dropped from the curriculum entirely," she writes. "This is a travesty." Judson offers several reasons that evolution is a necessary part of science class -- GTO's favorite is a somewhat philosophical one about "the development of an attitude toward evidence," as she puts it. "A society where ideology is a substitute for evidence can go badly awry."

 

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