1 out of 8 biology teachers reject evolution

By Julia Duin
February 1, 2011

Can you maintain a traditional Judeo-Christian view of how the Earth was created and still remain a science teacher in public schools?

About one in eight high school biology teachers do, according to a new article in the magazine Science.
The study, which came out last week, says 13 percent of 900 high school biology teachers polled by two Pennsylvania State University professors believe Earth was created by God instead of evolving over a 3.7-billion-year time span. Then there is the 28 percent who take the opposite tack in their classrooms; teaching that evolution is a given. The rest - roughly 60 percent - don't take a position at all for fear of starting controversy; a stance that Scientific American thought was cowardly at best.

Other science publications seemed surprised to find that 13 percent of the respondents defy the evolution mandate, in that these teachers consider evolution a belief system similar to creationism. the rest

Albert Mohler: Creation vs. Evolution – The New Shape of the Debate
...If evolution is true, then the entire narrative of the Bible has to be revised and reinterpreted. The evolutionary account is not only incompatible with any historical affirmation of Genesis, but it is also incompatible with the claim that all humanity is descended from Adam and the claim that in Adam all humanity fell into sin and guilt. The Bible’s account of the Fall and its consequences is utterly incompatible with evolutionary theory. The third chapter of Genesis is as problematic for evolutionary theory as the first two...