“And I always tell my friends who don’t believe in this stuff, “Fine, how do you think we came to — we’re randomly gathered protoplasm? We could have been rhinoceroses but we got lucky this week?’”
“Now, that is if you assume it is lucky to be human rather than rhinoceros. I don’t want — knowing the way the news media works, I do not want ‘Gingrich announces anti-rhinoceros hostility’ to come out of this meeting.”
“Researchers found that only 28 percent of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendations of the National Research Council to describe straightforwardly the evidence for evolution and explain the ways in which it is a unifying theme in all of biology. At the other extreme, 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism, and spend at least an hour of class time presenting it in a positive light.
That leaves what the authors call “the cautious 60 percent,” who avoid controversy by endorsing neither evolution nor its unscientific alternatives. In various ways, they compromise.
“These kinds of data have been reported regionally, and in some cases nationally, for decades. Creationists are in the classroom, and it’s not just the South,” he said. “At least 25 percent of high school teachers in Minnesota explicitly teach creationism.” “These courses aren’t reaching the creationists,” he said. “They already know what evolution is. They were biology majors, or former biology students. They just reject what we told them.
“With 15 to 20 percent of biology teachers teaching creationism,” he continued, “this is the biggest failure in science education. There’s no other field where teachers reject the foundations of their science like they do in biology.” - Randy Moore, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota
“Students are being cheated out of a rich science education.” - Dr. Plutzer, a professor of political science at Penn State University”
“I don’t think we came from monkeys. I think that’s ridiculous. I haven’t seen a half-monkey, half-person yet”
Glenn Beck: Evolution Is ‘Ridiculous’
“How can like an African-American person evolve from a white person? We’re different skin.”
“Tibetans live at altitudes of 13,000 feet, breathing air that has 40 percent less oxygen than is available at sea level, yet suffer very little mountain sickness. The reason, according to a team of biologists in China, is human evolution, in what may be the most recent and fastest instance detected so far.”
Scientists Cite Fastest Case of Human Evolution
Science Friction: Creation broadcast on BBC1 on September 8th, 1996.
This documentary looks at the clash between evolution and creationism in the USA, and the progress of a state bill in Tennessee that threatened the legality of teaching evolution as fact. Above is part 1 of 5.
Richard Dawkins lecture: The greatest show on earth live - The University of Auckland
Ricky Gervais Helps Explain Evolution
A large number of Texans polled said they still don’t believe in evolution and are convinced that humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
– 51 percent disagree with the statement, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” – 38 percent agree with the statement, “God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.” – 30 percent agree with the statement, “Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.” Another 30 percent said they “don’t know” whether the statement is true. continue reading… thinkprogress
Dawkins ribs Ben Stein: “It’s fair to say the stork delivers the baby. But WHO DELIVERS THE STORK?!?”
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‘A conversation with Richard Dawkins’ by Roger Bingham - thesciencenetwork
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The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds
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