This reminds me of why NY Times writers are hired: They report but don’t resort to boring, fact-by-fact journalism, they inflect style and voice, and are taking it back to the colorful journalism of the 19th century. One could say that this is bias, in favor of evolution, but those same people can be accused of being bias in favor of magic. I mean, you would never accuse someone of having a gravity-bias, would you?
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
by Amy Harmon
ORANGE PARK, Fla. — David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote “Evolution” in the rectangle of light on the screen.
He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the school gymnasium.
“If I do this wrong,” Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, “I’ll lose him.”
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