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Teachers letting science point to Creator

Bill Bumpas - OneNewsNow - 2/22/2011 4:30:00 AMBookmark and Share

school teacher and students bigA Christian educator is applauding a national survey that shows more than 900 biology teachers in public high schools are teaching creationism, which is thriving in the classroom.


The New York Times recently brought attention to a survey published in an issue of Science magazine that shows only 28 percent of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendation of the National Research Council to only teach evolution. (See earlier story)

Finn Laursen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI), is encouraged to see that teachers are not concentrating on the limited curriculum, as he believes a good teacher will go beyond the minimum standard.

Finn Laursen (CEAI)"We really encourage teachers to teach multiple theories: evolution, creationism, intelligent design. In other words, just teach the science and let higher level of thinking speak for itself," he suggests. "We know as followers of the biblical truth that if we just study science, it will point back to the Creator. And we even know the Creator's name."

The CEAI executive director says he sees the light of the truth shining on more students.

"We need to stop hiding the truth from them, and we're finding more and more teachers from a Christian persuasion willing to do that," he shares. "And I think that's an exciting thing; I think that shows hope for tomorrow."


The survey reveals that about 60 percent of teachers avoid controversy by endorsing neither evolution nor other alternatives. Meanwhile, 13 percent spend at least an hour of class time explicitly advocating creationism.

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