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1 the very first day that I teach Evolution, I ask them
2 what their definition of Evolution is.
3 We always get all kinds of different things,
4 monkeys, we came from monkeys and all kinds of things
5 like that. Then I try to put to rest the first day that
6 what we are going to teach is Evolution is change over
7 time.
8 And I basically tell them I don't believe -- I
9 can't care how they believe life began. We are not
10 going to hit that. We are going to look at once life is
11 here, what has happened to it since.
12 I wouldn't say that I necessarily stated that
13 another theory is Creationism because I try to put that
14 at rest in the beginning and not get into the origin of
15 life type thing.
16 Q. Okay. And that is part of the reason I asked you the
17 question. You say change over time an origin of life.
18 Where do you start in your presentation of Evolutionary
19 Theory, Jen; how do you present that concept to your
20 students?
21 A. That conversation I just told you is basically the first
22 day. And then we look at -- we start with Darwin and
23 his background, how he went on his trip and what
24 evidence he collected and that kind of thing and how he
25 came up with his theory of natural selection.