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Teaching evolution
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Dave Banack
At Mormon Insights, a post on the do’s and don’ts of teaching evolution to college students. The author: I am a happy and content Latter-day Saint who teaches evolution at a non-LDS university. In fact, I have taught evolution in various forums and institutions for 30 years.
Who designed the Designer?
By
Dave Banack
That and other interesting questions debated in the hundered-plus comments to “What do you think about Evolution?” at Mormon Matters. FYI, I would not rely on the way the quote that constitutes the bulk of the post tries to distinguish natural selection from evolution.
Losing your religion
By
Dave Banack
Lots of stories on the latest Pew Forum survey, “Faith in Flux: Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.” Here is the first paragraph from the summary prepared by Pew: Americans change religious affiliation early and often. In total, about half of American adults have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Most…
Harvard LDS student panel
By
Dave Banack
At Harvard, as reported in the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson: “Mormons Clarify Beliefs.” Don’t laugh — the way the newspaper business is going, campus papers might be all we have left in a couple of years.
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