Word: teaching
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...theory of evolution, there are also problems with the creation story. Genesis gives two accounts of the beginning. The first and second chapters differ significantly in describing how it came about. The Bible educates Jews and Christians about who created the world and why. It does not teach when or how. I am content to leave that to science...
...FELSKE, the women's varsity tennis coach, resigned earlier this week. Felske, who will finish out the season with the team, said, "I've been here four years. It's a wonderful place, and I enjoy the students, but it's time to move on." Felske said he would teach a tennis program this summer but had no definite plans for the fall. "I guess it's the kind of thing that makes life interesting," he said...
...former Portuguese Minister of Culture, Macedo has published several critical works and volumes of poetry. He will teach two courses in the fall--Portuguese 120, a survey of Portuguese Literature taught in Portuguese, and a new Comparative Literatures course entitled "The Circumstantial Self: Characterization in the 19th Century Novel...
...polyester tie. Damned if I was going to stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
Reagan was wrong about the beliefs of most scientists, but his political instincts were more right. Particularly at the local level, the creationists represent strong popular feeling. In Dallas, school officials recommended that teachers use books that teach "two models" of the origin of life and the earth, Darwinian and creationist. In Anchorage, ninth-grade teachers have been ordered to skip the sections in history texts dealing with evolution, at least until the school board can provide additional material on divine creation...