This Makes A Lot of Sense

[Minimalist]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...152417.htm

June 15, 2013 — Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populations. The researchers, Peter J. T. White, Merle K. Heidemann, and James J. Smith, then incorporated two of the scenarios into a cellular and molecular biology course taught to undergraduates at the university's Lyman Briggs College.

As an adjunct they should take the fucking bible (or koran) and throw it in the trash just to hammer home the point!

[Silver]

[NoraBrimstone]

How did these students even get in to University if they don't even understand one of the most basic biological concepts?

[KichigaiNeko]

Good question Nora.

[Doubting Thomas]

Because very few high schools actually teach evolution these days. If it's not a Christian teacher who doesn't believe in evolution over his religion, it's all the religious douchebags on the school board or the vocal ones threatening to vote out the school board if they have science standards which put a lot of emphasis on evolution. Add to that the fact that most school text book manufacturers design their textbooks based on what the school board of the state of Texas wants (since Texas is such a large state they don't want to lose them as a customer) and since Texas school boards usually consist of conservative Republican Christians, it's not surprising that when kids reach college they have no idea how evolution really works. They think that picture showing progression from a monkey to a man is literal truth, or else they tend to believe all the lies that creationists put out there. It's sad that in a first world civilized country that 46% of people think that evolution is false and creationism is true.

[ideologue08]

Not even some people who believe in the theory of evolution can actually explain it because they failed biology so epically. That includes some of my former atheist friends who literally had no idea how it works. It's true that people reject the theory ignorantly but people also accept it ignorantly.