Actually Carey, you have “encountered a biology teacher who is as hostile toward religion as religious zealots are toward evolution†and "feels compelled to teach 'atheism'"— Mr.
Selfish Gene himself, Richard Dawkins, the highly credentialed Oxford zoologist and one of your most famous Darwinian gurus and spokesmen—recall his teachings:
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In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
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Regarding your sentiment that the author of the article was merely “referring to the sense in which evolution is a flat fact just like gravity,†I suggest you carefully reread what he actually, explicitly wrote: “This is how we distinguish theories that work, like evolution or gravitation.†See that?—
theories, like
evolution and
gravity? (Is it just me or do you perhaps need to work a bit on your intellectual honesty and/or rigor?)