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Why I teach the controversy: Using creationism to teach critical thinking [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Creationism and intelligent design are terms used to describe supernatural explanations for the origin of life, and the diversity of species on this planet. Many scientists have argued that the science classroom is no place for discussion of creationism.
P. Lynne eHoney
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Dialog religii z nauką wyzwaniem dla chrześcijaństwa

Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, 2022
Source literature lists several versions of creationism as well as numerous manners of understand- ing evolutionism. Creationist views may be limited to four basic ones: fundamentalist creationism, creation science, intelligent design and ...
Sławomir Leciejewski
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Revisiting the Scopes Trial: Young-Earth Creationism, Creation Science, and the Evangelical Denial of Climate Change

Religions, 2021
In the century since the Scopes Trial, one of the most influential dogmas to shape American evangelicalism has been that of young-earth creationism. This article explains why, with its arm of “creation science,” young-earth creationism is a significant ...
K. L. Marshall
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What’s effective and ineffective in preparing high school biology educators to teach evolution? Evidence from a representative national U.S. survey

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2023
Background What types of coursework prepare biology teachers to teach evolution effectively? The present study provides answers to that question based on evidence from a nationally representative sample of public high school biology teachers in the U.S ...
Glenn Branch, Eric Plutzer, Ann Reid
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Understanding creation science and intelligent design

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2021
In American Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design in the Evangelical Market, Benjamin Huskinson presents a close examination of the two main American sociopolitical movements launched in opposition to evolution during the second half of ...
Glenn Branch
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Metaphysics and Evolution: Response to Critics [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2021
I respond to Michał Chaberek’s and Robert A. Delfino’s criticisms of my argument that evolution is compatible with Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics.
Dennis F. Polis
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Stories about the truth and tolerance: The creators and the created [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2007
This work discusses creationism as a new form of religious fundamentalism, which is attacking not only modern science but also the foundations of secularism in Europe, America and almost the whole world, as well as how creationism is using the mechanisms
Gavrilović Ljiljana
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Alien and Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Evolutionism, Creationism and Pseudoarchaeology in Science Fiction

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021
This paper analyses the change in the metanarrative of the Alien franchise initiated by the movie Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, and continued with a series of three sequels. The franchise was revived in 2012 with the prequel Prometheus.
Uroš Matić, Sonja Žakula
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Teaching evolution in U.S. public schools: a continuing challenge

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
Background Over a decade ago, the first nationally representative probability survey concerning the teaching of evolution revealed disquieting facts about evolution education in the United States.
Eric Plutzer, Glenn Branch, Ann Reid
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Dissent with modification: how postcreationism’s claim of hyperrapid speciation opposes yet embraces evolutionary theory

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
The development of creationism to its multiple modern forms has been made possible in part by its appropriation and misuse of mainstream scientific terms.
R. Joel Duff, Thomas R. Beatman, David S. MacMillan   +2 more
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