re: #235 JasonA

Oh no no no. I never meant to give the impression that religion could be ignored like that. I can’t think of a better example than creationism to illustrate what I think has no place in a classroom unless you’re context is historical rather than scientific.

If I were teaching High School biology, I would happily cover creationism. It would wind up looking like it had been in a food processor for a couple of hours, but what the hell.

We currently teach Lamarckism in pretty much all introductory biology classes. It’s as wrong as creationism, but it’s included for illustrative purposes on the way to Darwinism and modern evolutionary thinking.