Yet, the report said there's still room for improvement. A sizable number of teachers "continue to either avoid evolution altogether or communicate mixed messages that can serve to legitimize non-scientific alternatives in the minds of their students," the researchers wrote. "Such teachers 'fail to explain the nature of scientific inquiry, undermine the authority of established experts, and legitimize creationist arguments, even if unintentionally.'" Those individuals "may play a far more important role in hindering scientific literacy in the United States than the smaller number of explicit creationists," the report stated.
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U.S. Teachers Evolving on Science of Evolution
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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