Better to teach the students to think. Better to teach the students to critically analyze. Better to teach the students science. Then there would be no need to build hundreds of web pages, print thousands of articles.
Gregg Miller On 9/1/06 6:07 AM, "Leslie Mertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something is wrong here. When I typed "peppered moths" into Google, > up popped a listing of pages claiming to expose the famed study as > faulty science. Anyone with an understanding of natural selection and > evolution can quickly see through the pages' creationist > underpinnings and find the myriad mistakes in their claims. To the > many people who are still forming opinions about the topics, however, > the sheer number of these web pages -- even though they are mainly > repeats of the same purposely erroneous information -- may lead them > to the wrong conclusion. This includes college students, who will > "google" just about anything and everything. Perhaps we need to use > the same tactics to ensure that the scientifically accurate story is > told. > > ======================= > Leslie Mertz, Ph.D. > educator > Wayne State University
