Teaching college students about the nature of science should not be a controversial exercise. College students are expected to distinguish between astronomy and astrology, chemistry and alchemy, evolution and creationism. In practice, however, the conflict between creationism and the nature of science may create controversy in the classroom, even walkouts, when the subject of evolution is raise...

How did it all begin? do we even start to engage the differences between creation narratives in Christian Bible and modern scientific theory? The authors of this book explore hermeneutic approaches developments biblical studies set scene for a religious approach. This approach is open possibility that literalist Scripture is, fact, most unjustifiable reading Bible. may profoundly affect how vie...

Phillip Johnson claims that Creationism is a better explanation of the existence and characteristics of biological species than is evolutionary theory. He argues that the only reason biologists do not recognize that Creationist's negative arguments against Darwinism have proven this is that they are wedded to a biased ideological philosophy Naturalism which dogmatically denies the possibility o...

This report reviews the way in which classical embryology is taught and interpreted at the Buca Faculty of Education, in Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey). This university is one of the leading teacher-education institutions in Turkey. My course is taught with appreciation of the fact that students are thinking ideologically rather than scientifically with regard to creationism and evolution in b...