Evolution vs. Creationism An Introduction Second Edition

Science, evolution, and creationism.

O n December 20, 2005, John E. Jones III, federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, issued a 130-page-long decision (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District) declaring that ‘‘The overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID [intelligent design] is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory . . . ID is not supported by any peer-reviewed r...

Automated Theory Decision Making: A Case of Evolution vs. Creationism

Understanding our audiences: the design and evolution of science, evolution, and creationism.

For many years, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has been at the forefront in responding to challenges to the teaching of evolution, working with other national and state organizations with similar objectives (summarized in Alberts and Labov, 2004; Labov, 2005). The NAS has established a website that makes freely available its three current publications on evolution education (NAS, 1998, ...

Introduction: why people do not accept evolution: using protistan diversity to promote evolution literacy.

The controversy evolution vs. creationism is inherent to the incompatibility between scientific rationalism/empiricism and the belief in supernatural causation. To test this hypothesis, we conceptualized a Cartesian landscape where the dependent variable acceptance of evolution was plotted as function of three factors, each represented by an index (value range 0 to 3): Religiosity Index (RI), S...

The Evolution-Creation Controversy: Opinions from Students at a “Liberal” Liberal Arts College

A questionnaire dealing with selected issues in the evolution-creation debate was distributed to 362 students at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Because the survey was originally developed and distributed at Ohio State University, comparisons could be made between university students and individuals enrolled in a small, highly selective liberal arts college. Most Oberlin students claim that the...