16% of biology teachers believe "God created human beings within the last 10,000 years or so."

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/961247,CST-NWS-qt21.article

Teaching from the choir

May 21, 2008

BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist

Lest We Forget that the Dark Ages Were a Faith-Based Initiative (cont'd):

A national survey has found that 16 percent of biology teachers believe "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."

And 12 percent say they include this in class as science.

[dorkulon]

1. .

:argh: :wow: :grr: :shrug: :cry: :banghead:

[mikeytherat]

2. Without understanding (or believing) evolutionary biology, how does

one get a degree in biology?

mikey_the_rat

[alarimer]

7. Biology teachers do not necessarily have degrees in biology.

They might have degrees in science education which is short on the actual science. Or they come from some other field but aren't really qualified in science.

[Kitty Herder]

8. Yeah. My high school biology teacher had a degree in phys. ed. And

so did my my Sophomore-year English teacher, my Junior-year English teacher, my French teacher, my Civics teacher....

The only thing that school district cared about was athletics, so they hired coaches, not teachers. I'm sure mine wasn't the only high school in the country like that, so it's not wonder that some biology teachers aren't really qualified to do anything more than coach the basketball team.

[dysfunctional press]

3. 12- 16% of biology teachers need to be replaced.

apparently.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. That is frightening.

Good thing Jesus is there to comfort me in my time of grief...

[madokie]

5. I was paying my respect yesterday and had to set through an hour and a half

of what I see as nonsense. The Preacher was definitely taking advantage of his captive audience

[EstimatedProphet]

6. There's the reason you really don't learn a whole lot in high school biology

[LucyParsons]

9. Anybody want to sponsor me to retrain as a high school biology teacher?

Seriously. I'll do it.

[emperor124]

10. Is that 12% of the 16%

or 12% overall?

[Solly Mack]

11. that's depressing