On May 21, 2008, at 1:16 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
Self-selected sample ("Of more than 900 teachers who responded").
Meaningless.
>
> Years ago a friend of mine then living on Oklahoma reported that a
> state legislator helped to defeat a bill calling for equal time for
> creationism by pointing out that thsi would require biology teachers
> to tecah evolution.
>
>
> --- On Wed, 5/21/08, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism
>> as a valid
>> alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the
>> Public Library of
>> Science Biology.
>>
>> Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted
>> by Penn State
>> University political scientist Michael Berkman and
>> colleagues, 32 percent
>> agreed that creationism and intelligent design should be
>> taught as
>> scientifically unsound. Forty percent said such
>> explanations are religiously
>> valid but inappropriate for science class.
>>
>> However, 25 percent said they devoted classroom time to
>> creationism or
>> intelligent design. Of these, about one-half -- 12 percent
>> of all
>> teachers -- called creationism a "valid scientific
>> alternative to Darwinian
>> explanations for the origin of species," and the same
>> number said that "many
>> reputable scientists view these as valid alternatives to
>> Darwinian theory."
Shane Mage
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