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14th December 2003, 09:37 PM
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14th December 2003, 11:02 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | True, we only learnt about adaptation for GCSE, which is kinda like microevolution I think. It wasn't until the final year we were taught about evolution and even then the teacher didn't call it that until she had finished teaching it, she just taught "mechanisms of change" or something and told us at the end "that's basically evolution".
Well, for some reason the National Curriculum singles evolution out as being a controversial theory, so teachers who want to avoid controversy probably prefer to be coy about it. Pretty sad.
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14th December 2003, 11:56 PM
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Reps: 62,343 (power: 74) | | Originally Posted by Cantuar Well, for some reason the National Curriculum singles evolution out as being a controversial theory, so teachers who want to avoid controversy probably prefer to be coy about it. Pretty sad.
Well my biology teacher said she didn't mention evolution until the end to avoid arguements, which did turn out to be a good idea because an arguement did break out which resulted in someone storming out of the class. :rolleyes:
But I don't think the syllabus even mentioned evolution, it just called the topic "Mechanism of Change" and mentioned all the components of evolution like Natural Selection, muation, etc.
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15th December 2003, 12:02 AM
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Reps: 1,301 (power: 13) | | Originally Posted by Arikay Believing they were "created by someone" does not for a creationist make.
Creationism is a specific scientific how, that someone created, just like evolution.
Creationism and belief in creation by god are seperate things.
One can believe in creation but not be a creationist.
There are many like that here, they believe in creation, and they believe evolution is How god created. OOooh I see. 
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15th December 2003, 12:04 AM
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Reps: 1,301 (power: 13) | | Originally Posted by PhantomLlama That's pretty funny. We all are pretty shocked when we discover that what we think isn't as widely held as we think. I know I was. LOL! Yeah.
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15th December 2003, 12:09 PM
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Reps: 406,903,328,345,094,208 (power: 406,903,328,345,118) | | Originally Posted by lilangelheart OOooh I see.
Nice going, Arikay!  Another person who now understands that evolution is not atheism. Good work!
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16th December 2003, 03:11 PM
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Reps: 2,857 (power: 21) | | Originally Posted by LorentzHA I bet the only thing in the trunk is an oversized Bible.  Captain: What's that? Best friend's room-mate: Proof, that there is no evolution.
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