Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/8/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
"Teach the controversy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy is the name of a campaign and strategy fashioned by the [[Discovery Institute]] for teaching creationism in schools. Perhaps not quite the image we want to associate with. :-)
I would have gone more with "Describe the controversy, don't become part of it."
That would be too passive. Teaching the controversy requires a greater effort to understand what your opponents are saying to the extent that you would be able to give an eloquent defence of the opposing point of view.
Ec