On Saturday, 2 December 2023 at 18:46:57 UTC, Mark Isaak wrote:
Amanda Townley will succeed Ann Reid as executive director of the
National Center for Science Education. An excerpt from the news article
from _Science_:
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“I grew up in a young Earth creationism home, with a worldview that was based in evangelical Christianity and a literal translation of the
Bible,” recalls the 42-year-old Townley. “And when I took honors biology in high school, my teacher said she’s not going to teach evolution
because she doesn’t believe in it.”
Townley decided to find out what she was missing. “When I looked at the part of the book we didn’t cover in class, it made sense to me,” she says. It also shaped her choice of a career.
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Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/brought-creationist-home-scientist-fights-evolution
Creationists now know, of course, that the books
must be censored, as well as the classroom teaching.
If she said "literal translation of the bible", I wonder
if she meant that, or if she meant "literal interpretation".
The bible is written in foreign languages - sometimes
poorly - and a "literal translation" into English still looks
like a foreign language. A "literal interpretation" means
that when you read about a rich man and a poor man
who die and encounter Abraham in the afterlife to discuss
their relative just desserts, that this has actually happened,
and is accurately described.
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