Thank you, Stephen, excellently put!!  I wonder if the instructor's
religious explanations would have been taken as calmly if the instructor
had been quoting from the Koran instead, and he never mentioned the Bible
at all....

--Suzanne

> Why was this instructor invoking the Bible at all -- in a biology class?!
>  This is exactly the problem... you accept the confluence of science and
> religion without the righteous indignation that academic integrity
> demands.  Science is not a contest between its findings and all
> non-scientific alternative beliefs -- and those alternatives, while they
> may have a place in academia, do not belong in science curricula.  Your
> biology teacher wasn't teaching "science."
>
> This kind of misconception about science is what endangers a presentation
> of the subject in museums!
>
> Stephen

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