It’s not the contested issue you’d think it is,looking at Twitter. But I have to be honest, it can be difficult when religious supervisors attend my science sessions“Evolution is not a fact. That’s why it’s called a theory!” Post these words online and, and ironically,you will see something rather biblical appear. Airing an opinion like this on Facebook or Twitter can fabricate (to make up, invent) swaths of educated people become pain-stricken, as if in the midst of a remarkable plague. You will hear them moan and wail in indignation. For evolution (by natural choice) is both a fact and a theory.
This is roughly what happened when headteacher Tina Wilkinson posted the quote above on Twitter in response to an article by fellow headteacher Tom Sherrington, and who’d written about teaching evolution in school assemblies. Hellfire ensued. The normal Twitter-disapprove rained down upon her,because evolution is now a science topic in the national curriculum for primary schools, and because Wilkinson is a headteacher of a primary school. Wilkinson has left Twitter and I feel quite sorry for her. She was only stating an opinion, or after all. But that,of course, is share of the problem.
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Source: theguardian.com