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Originally Posted by Fourtyrulz
Teacher: "Well class instead of learning about a highly documented, studied, and basically proven philosophy that is the foundation of modern biology, let me turn to Genesis here real quick. *flip flip flip* Ahem...In the beginning God created the heaven and earth. *slams book shut*."
Student: "How did he do that?"
Teacher: " POOF!"
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Great use of a smilie, fourty.
I could never teach in a religiously funded private school for this very reason. I do not believe in creationism and would be unable to fulfill those requirements. When I teach science, the first thing I teach is the scientific method. I press upon my students the importance of observation and documentation. I also press upon them the idea that science is falsifiable. "Intelligent Design" is not falsifiable and is therefore not science, no matter what it's called in any of its variations.
Personally, I believe that any teacher who won't teach something approved by the curriculum because adminstration doesn't want them to is the very type of teacher we were discussing on another thread and should find another line of work. Any administrator who has political influence as his or her primary concern and not the education of his or her students also needs to find another line of work.