Veering from Evolution - Fired teacher explains his presentation

mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Mar-25-07 10:38 AM
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Veering from Evolution - Fired teacher explains his presentation

This is from today's edition of The Bulletin, from Bend, Oregon.

Veering from EVOLUTION

Veering from EVOLUTION
Fired teacher explains his presentation
By Christopher Stollar / The Bulletin
Published: March 25. 2007 5:00AM PST

On Wednesday, March 14, eight days into a new job teaching biology at Sisters High School, Kris Helphinstine showed a class of freshman and sophomore students pictures of naked corpses, a Nazi swastika and Charles Darwin in a PowerPoint presentation.

"What do these pictures have in common?" the 27-year-old part-time teacher asked the 30 students.

They listened as Helphinstine gave a roughly hourlong presentation, explaining how the Third Reich perverted evolution and eugenics to slaughter Jews and Gypsies in death camps to protect the "superior race."

On the Monday and Tuesday before giving the PowerPoint presentation, Helphinstine had given the students supplemental material that included an essay promoting creationism and links to answersingenesis.org.

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msongs

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Sun Mar-25-07 10:51 AM
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1. christians murdered all those jews. did "KRIS" apologize for that? nt

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Vexatious Ape

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Sun Mar-25-07 10:55 AM
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2. Good point.

and you know that loon would never admit to that little fact in a million years.

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KingofNewOrleans

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Sun Mar-25-07 11:30 AM
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3. Actually "Social Darwinism" was a powerful perversion

or unscientific misapplication of Darwin's work, but that wasn't the thrust of Mr. Helpinstine's lecture. Clearly, this teacher doesn't seem capable of grasping the difference between evolution and "Social Darwinism".

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hayu_lol

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Sun Mar-25-07 12:49 PM
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4. Very very few of the fundies and tellow-travelers ever admit...

that Charles Darwin was a very religious christian. Darwin was very concerned that his work showed major differences between biblical explanations and reality. It kept his work from being published earlier than it finally was.

I have never heard any of THEM ever explain that.

DNA proves Darwin right.

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