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[Xavier_Onassis]

Scientific process is not used to teach evolution to schoolchildren.
Evolution is presented exactly as an orthodox dogma .
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No, it isn't taught that way. It is taught that way in the imaginations of fundie preachers, who will not shut up about it.


If you want to know why math is not taught well, it is a shortage of good math teachers.

This is partly because many good mathematicians are not very good at teaching math. John Forbes Nash was a terrible teacher, despite his genius. He could communicate his ideas well only with other mathematicians.

Another reason is that good mathematicians can make LOTS more money in jobs that pay better outside of schools.  Teaching math and language skills is much more difficult than teaching other subjects because there are few ways to make the basic required skills entertaining and useful at the same time.

A good teacher will logically gravitate where the pay is better and one need not dodge spitballs and "teach to the test" in colleges and universities. You can blame capitalism and market economics for this. It is hard to blame a mathematician for not applying useful numeric data to his own life.

[Amianthus]

Scientific process is not used to teach evolution to schoolchildren.
Evolution is presented exactly as an orthodox dogma .

If Scientific process itself were better taught there would be much less to discuss on this subject.

Funny, when I was going to school, the scientific process was explained and the science behind evolution was explained as well. It was the same when my daughter was in school.

Refusing to teach "Intelligent Design" (which is not science) in a science class does not mean that evolution is taught as "orthodox dogma."

[Xavier_Onassis]

One can speculate that evolution is God's method of creation, but that would not be science.
Neither would intelligent design, which involves applying unproven speculation to the evolutionary process.

Saying that the evolution of the eye is impossible without God is akin to saying that the building of the pyramids or the creation of the Nazca lines is impossible without the intervention of space aliens.

The fact is that evolution is NOT taught as any sort of dogma in any reputable school.

Any biologist who refuses to accept evolution as the best possible explanation of the creation, however, is not credible, just as a mathematician who claims that pi is equal to 3.00.

Ben Stein should not be given a professorship in biology because he lacks the credentials. He coud get the job in economics, though.