Let's evolve

Evolution vs. creationism is a recurring theme around here. I'm too lazy to look up the posts but the short version is that one is science and the other is religion and there shouldn't be any confusion or equivocation about this. Especially not in a science classroom. As it turns out that's easier said than done, courtesy this short brief from Scientific American: 
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High school students flunking biology might take some consolation in knowing that most of their teachers would be, too. So suggests a commentary in the January 28th issue of the journal Science by Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer of Pennsylvania State University, who surveyed more than 900 U.S. high school teachers about how they taught evolution. ["Defeating Creationism in the Courtroom, But Not in the Classroom"]

Shockingly, they found that only 28 percent of teachers taught evolution effectively, and 13 percent actually advocated for creationism. The roughly 60 percent in the mushy middle steered around conflicts between evolution and creationism or taught both and let students draw their own conclusions. (Always such a good idea….)
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You can put me firmly in the camp of teaching students science, and letting them draw their own conclusions. I don't want to shock anyone, but creationism fails as science. There is no debate in the scientific community about this. If you disagree on scientific grounds then I encourage you to do more research, preferably in the sciences. If you disagree on religious grounds then I defer to your expertise.

In unrelated photos, here's me building a house for a needy family. It looks a lot like the photo from 2 years ago (see profile pic). Maybe because I wore the same clothes. I retired (read: threw away) the shirts AND the hat this year, so maybe next year we'll have a new look. Retained the jeans; Diesel keeps me looking sexy on the jobsite.