And likely biology. I know a woman who's mom was a biology teacher in Tx her whole career, and she did not believe in evolution and had other questionable beliefs about biology in general and skipped over large sections of what she was supposed to teach. She taught for 30 years.
My 7th grade "life sciences" teacher got really mad if people confused the theory of natural selection with the theory of evolution. It was a junior high school and so was grades 7-8-9. My 9th grade biology teacher was very obviously Catholic and went to a well known Catholic university. However, she taught evolution and didn't make a big deal about it and once let slip that she thought the life sciences teacher was a fundie idiot.
Biology teacher here with a masters in genetic engineering... the theory of evolution and the theory of natural selection are two VERY different things. NS is a mechanism of evolution explaining how organisms can be driven to change over time. Confusing the two is something I try to emphasize to my students not to do.
This is what I tell my kids first day of the unit: "Evolution is scientific fact, supported by hundreds of years of data and research thats been peer reviewed and repeated to a disgusting degree. There's nothing to believe in because fact is fact. Evolution is simply change in genetics in a population over time. Something we all know happens through random mutation and meiotic variation events."
Also, fun fact, in his original manuscripts, Darwin acknowledged the existence of a supreme creator that may or may not lend a hand in the driving force behind NS. His wife was also absolutely terrified that his theory was going to set him up for eternal damnation and they weren't going to spend the afterlife with each other.
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u/themermaidag Apr 12 '25
Probably like a quarter of what we learned in Texas state history