TN bill would let God into science classrooms

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from the Tennessean:




Most public school science teachers whose students ask whether God created man do what Pamela Sexton does.

"I usually don't go into it … kids will come to a conclusion," she said.

She teaches evolution at Marshall Middle School in Nashville the way the Tennessee Department of Education outlines it for seventh grade — in part through a lesson about the made-up "Geekfeezel" bird. The birds survive the thinning of the ozone layer through evolution, so the Geekfeezels with smaller eyes and camouflage-colored feathers make it because they're the fittest.

The origin of life is left out of the conversation. ...........(more)

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