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To: From many - one.
I teach this stuff

The big reason I'm an evo-skeptic is my stridently pro-evolution high school and junior high school science classes.

There would be a simple list of data points and only "God did it" as an explanation.

A simple list of data points? If you are teaching taxonomy you should be teaching why man has determined organisms belong in particular categories not guessing as to how creatures developed. You don't have to offer an explanation as to how the creature got the way it did, or you could offer more than one.

No discussion of co-evolution of parasite and host, similarities among primates, common physiologic pathways . . .

And in lieu of that you can teach how blood clots, the heart pumps, DDT effects mosquitos, and how to make roses different colors. You don't need the theory of evolution for any of that. OTOH, philosophical-political bull sessions may mean these things are not getting taught.

234 posted on 05/03/2005 12:49:13 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

If I refused to believe any topic where I had a bad teacher I'd be pretty ignorant.

I can't teach why "man has determined creatures belong in certain categories" without evolution at the root.

Colored roses???? In high school biology?? The rest of your suggestions are equally inappropriate for varying reasons, except for an introduction to the mechanisms forthe heart pumping.


244 posted on 05/03/2005 1:02:39 PM PDT by From many - one.
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