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Creation Science/Intelligent Design Propaganda in Rogers High School?

Darrel Henschell of the Fayetteville Freethinkers reports that:

A senior high student at Roger's High School has reported on our Fayetteville Freethinker board that a biology teacher has had the class watch Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

And no, it wasn't an exercise in discerning what propaganda looks like.

The student observes:

"He [the teacher] denies any evidence of fossils between reptiles and birds (even after I handed him an article discussing several) and probably all other fossils. The man claims that apparently the only eight* ancestors of men's fossils have been disproven, or something like that. He also made the argument from authority, "I can't believe you're arguing with a biology teacher about this."

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Posted by Richard S. Drake on February 13, 2009 02:05 PM |

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You might point out to the Freethinking kid that it is illegal to teach creationism in the public schools. Perhaps the young man would drop a line to the ACLU.

Of course, the biology teacher should be fired. Not only did he break the law, but he doesn't understand biology. He's a crook and a charlatan.

Posted by: Archaeopteryx [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 21, 2009 01:06 PM

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