Friday 27 March 2015

Teaching Evolution to Students Who Tell Me They’ll Pray for My Soul

Teaching Evolution to Students Who Tell Me They’ll Pray for My Soul


To teach evolution at the University of Kentucky is to teach at an institution steeped in the history of defending evolution education. The first effort to pass an anti-evolution law (led by William Jennings Bryan) happened in Kentucky in 1921. It proposed making the teaching of evolution illegal. The university’s president at that time, Frank McVey, saw this bill as a threat to academic freedom.

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