If My Daughter Learns Evolution, She’ll Get Rejected from Vet School, Says West Virginia Dad

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24. As a professor of biology, PZ Myers has the best take on this story

Look, here’s reality for you. If you don’t learn evolution in high school, you will definitely get it in college, especially if you’re a biology major. And if you plan on being a vet, you pretty much definitely will be a biology major.

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I can’t even imagine going into a field that requires in-depth knowledge about diverse animals, that requires comparative anatomy and physiology, without understanding the relationships between those organisms.

One last thing: sending your daughter off to learn biology while telling her that evolution “has no math to back it” is self-defeating. The first upper level biology course she takes, she will learn that Daddy lied about evolution — it’s a truckload of math. And if Daddy lied about biology, what else has he lied about? Daddy is the kind of Christian atheists love: he raises smart young women and burdens them with faith-based rubbish that is easily demolished, discrediting her religion in the process.

Thanks, Dad. But really, for your daughter’s sake, we’d rather you raised her with a better understanding of how science works, and if you really need to, a religion that is more tolerant and open-minded and slightly more difficult to reduce to a shambolic hateful smear.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/05/30/so-backwards/