re: #56 MandyManners

You’re a teacher so I’d like to know your thoughts on that method.

I don’t know all the details, but I would give them a more specific assignment with research objectives—and honestly, with such a potentially explosive subject, I might direct them to specific websites. Let them do independent research on something else.

I’ve dealt with kids with deep anti-science religious beliefs, just briefly, and it’s pretty damn hard to deal with. We didn’t get as far as Darwin—I did a lecture on Galileo, and we were already at loggerheads. The magic bad word is ‘science’.

One of the truly nice things about working at a Catholic school is that this doesn’t come up. Ironically enough, given Galileo’s troubles with the Church.