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To: Sopater
It pairs computer modeling of natural selection with classroom activities and readings on evolution concepts.

Not science. Brianwashing. Creationists readily accept natural selection.

At Elizabeth G. Lyons Elementary School in Randolph, Mass., one of a handful of states where the program is being tested, 4th graders have finished a unit on plant adaptation, in which they watched the changes to a water-sensitive-plant population as the amount of water available was altered. The class is now extending the computer model to include rabbits and will soon add hawks to illustrate a basic food chain, said lead researcher Paul Horwitz, a senior scientist at Concord.

Again, no one disputes a food chain.

such as the idea that changes in the environment will prompt changes in a population over time.

Everyone believes this and it has nothing to do with evolution.

5 posted on 11/16/2010 9:53:09 AM PST by big black dog
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Change in a population over time is the definition of evolution.

What most creationists object to is the common descent of species, but they usually don’t know enough about either subject to know the difference between the two.


33 posted on 12/02/2010 12:22:41 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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