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Originally Posted by Darth Wader
It still makes me furious that this was the extent of evolution I was taught in school - in religious studies, complete with around half an hour of nonsensical debate - that's it.
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Wade I am not sure how old you are but private schools now whether they be catholic, anglican, uniting church, islamic etc must teach evolution as part of any biology, human biology or lower school biological science course or they will not receive funding from the relevent state Govt's. No funding, no school. The curriculum is set and students must be able to succeed in public examinations in fact they must do better then the public system kids or the school will lose prestige and thus enrollments (League tables are very important). I teach science in a catholic school and although I don't teach biology I know my collegues go all out in teaching evolution as an explaination to the origin of species on this planet. To not teach the relevent curriculum is considered good reason for termination of employment. What the religious education teachers teach is up to them but we do not skimp on the science where I work and the kids are not dumb.
Mark