i think it's ironic (though not completely surprising) that this would be an issue in a day where it seems that the opposite is typical. it seems we see more people getting in trouble for teaching things other than evolution, than the criticism brought against this school for not using the "e" word. it's nearly impossible for me to be completely unbiased, since i personally hold strongly to the belief of creationism. however, i have to agree with the comments about the "theory of evolution." sometimes it seems like it's taught as the "law of evolution," though i don't have enough exerience to speak with authority. i start to smile and zone out when there's talk about millions and billions of years, and the age or rocks and the universe, but i know there's also plenty of people who would laugh at me for believing god created it all. interesting article.
Gravity is just a theory too. They don't actually know how it works, they just know that is usually does.
Evolution, as presently defined, is the change in allele frequency over time. Basically, things change. DNA mutates, geography changes separating populations which eventually mutate in different directions and become new species. Where life came from in the first place is a different one all together, and is usually addressed by cosmologists, biochemists and physicists rather than biologists.
Very interesting article. I'm tempted to cite it for my term paper in Evolution.
Well, if you want it for a citation, it'd probably be better to use the version published in a journal instead. But yeah... no matter what you believe (earth was brought up from under the sea on the turtle's back, etc), evolution is what scientists say probably happened.
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Evolution, as presently defined, is the change in allele frequency over time. Basically, things change. DNA mutates, geography changes separating populations which eventually mutate in different directions and become new species. Where life came from in the first place is a different one all together, and is usually addressed by cosmologists, biochemists and physicists rather than biologists.
Very interesting article. I'm tempted to cite it for my term paper in Evolution.
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http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol25/8118_is_evolution_arkansas39s_h_12_30_1899.asp
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