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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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CREATIONISM IN THE NETHERLANDS [PDF]

open access: yesZygon, 2010
Recent events indicate that creationists are becoming increasingly active in the Netherlands. This article offers an overview of these events. First, I discuss the introduction of intelligent‐design (ID) creationism into the Dutch public sphere by a ...
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The threat from creationism to the rational teaching of biology

open access: yesBiological Research, 2007
Most biologists outside the USA and a few other countries, like Australia and Canada, are under the impression that the threat to the teaching of biology represented by creationism does not concern them directly. This is unfortunately no longer true: the
ATHEL CORNISH-BOWDEN   +1 more
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Revisiting the Scopes Trial: Young-Earth Creationism, Creation Science, and the Evangelical Denial of Climate Change

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesEvolution: 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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IDC theory: creation and the creation loop [PDF]

open access: yesResearch and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
AbstractThe interest-driven creator (IDC) theory is being developed as a group endeavor by Asian researchers to articulate a holistic learning design theory for future education in Asia. The theory hypothesizes that students, driven by interest, can be engaged in the creation of knowledge (generating ideas and artifacts).
Tak-Wai Chan   +17 more
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Understanding creation science and intelligent design

open access: yesEvolution: 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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Stories about the truth and tolerance: The creators and the created [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik 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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Metaphysics and Evolution: Response to Critics [PDF]

open access: yesStudia 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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Promoting positive attitudes towards science and religion among sixth-form pupils : dealing with scientism and creationism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A sample of 187 female students, attending a sixth-form study day on religious studies, completed a questionnaire containing four scales concerned with assessing: attitude toward theistic religion, attitude toward science, scientism and creationism.
Leslie J. Francis   +3 more
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