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Why “teaching the controversy” in science classes is a bad idea. Hint: it’s not because teaching controversy is wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why, then, would two lifelong educators and passionate advocates of the “both sides” style of teaching join with essentially all biologists in making an exception of the alleged controversy between creation and evolution? What is wrong with the apparently sweet reasonableness of “it is only fair to teach both sides”? The answer is simple. This is not a scientific controversy at all.<\/p>\n

The article goes on to note that there are various genuine controversies within the field of evolutionary science, but that ID is, for a variety of reasons, simply not one of them.<\/p>\n

Good stuff worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why “teaching the controversy” in science classes is a bad idea. Hint: it’s not because teaching controversy is wrong. 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