A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote "Evolution" in the rectangle of light on the screen.

He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of ... Full Story »

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Andrew Lamb
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by Andrew Lamb - Oct. 1, 2008

Author Amy Harmon fails to point out the falsehoods and flaws in David Campbell's teaching. E.g. the Mickey Mouse analogy better fits a creation/designer scenario than evolution; his moth-picking activity perpetuates a long-discredited fraud (the peppered moth evolution story - in which birds were filmed pecking dead moths off trees they had been glued to); and his comments about fossils are wrong (see "Karl Kruszelnicki: still missing the missing links"). The author assumes the evolutionary story is true and the creation story false, neglecting to point out that both are worldviews based on axioms (unprovable assumptions), and neglecting to challenge the dogmas of the evolutionary view. However, Harmon does succeed in presenting a graphic portait of the indoctrination many students face in school. Andrew Lamb

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