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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Leave no child behind, TEACH EVOLUTION!

PZ Myers • 9 Comments

Like this bumper sticker? Want one?

They're now available from:

Michael W. Klymkowsky
Professor, MCD Biology
UC Boulder, UCB347
Boulder CO. 80309

They're $2.50 each (a bargain!) Make out the check to the "UC Boulder - Bioliteracy project". And even better, look at what the money supports: The Bioliteracy Project.

Our goal is to generate, test and distribute the tools to determine whether students are learning what teachers think they are teaching.

We assume that accurate and timely assessment of student knowledge will pressure the educational world toward more effective teaching.

Why? Because basic understanding of the biological sciences impacts our lives in more and more dramatic ways every year.

A wide range of important personal, social, economic and political decisions depend upon an accurate understanding of basic biology and the means by which science generates, tests and extends our knowledge.

A good cause, a strong statement, a classy sticker for your car…how can you go wrong?

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Comments:

#11050: mattH — 12/14 at 11:43 AM
Sounds good, except for the fact that it sounds like one more test to be abused by the NCLB crowd, but then I just have test overload from NCLB.

#11051: coturnix — 12/14 at 11:44 AM
Great! Thanks! We were considering printing our own (when you posted it the first time), but this is much better.

#11053: — 12/14 at 11:49 AM
I may have to send a batch to my neighboring northern Idaho school districts.

#11081: — 12/14 at 02:35 PM
A good cause, a strong statement, a classy sticker for your car…how can you go wrong?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if us creationists were right, this wouldn't be a strong statement or a good cause. Yes or no?

#11090: — 12/14 at 04:09 PM
In the very least, laws or theories are simply models for what actually exists in nature.

If creationists were right, would we just stop being interested in the world around us?

Furthermore, evolution is not antitheistic.

So, I hope you're not trying to say that it is un-Christian to learn, or to be an "intellectual."

Here we go again...

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

-Jerry Garcia

#11092: — 12/14 at 04:58 PM

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if us creationists were right, this wouldn’t be a strong statement or a good cause. Yes or no?

If you insist.

You meant to say "If we creationists were right, this wouldn't be a strong
statement or a good cause."

You're welcome.

Incidentally, the correct response is that if shit didn't stink, then there
would be no problem putting a sewage plant in your back yard.

#11130: Ben — 12/15 at 04:19 AM
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if us creationists were right, this wouldn’t be a strong statement or a good cause. Yes or no?

Yep. But you're not. So it is.

"The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them." --Thomas Edison.

#11217: — 12/16 at 03:33 AM
Um, a minor question: is the grammar /intentionally/ wrong, or just accidentally? You all see that, correct? Oh people, please tell me you *saw* that.

#11223: — 12/16 at 09:26 AM
Where is it wrong? "Leave No Child Behind, Teach Evolution" is perfectly fine.

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