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Hearts and minds in the science classroom: The education of a confirmed evolutionist revisited

✍ Scribed by Brian J. Alters

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
11 KB
Volume
34
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4308

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✦ Synopsis

I offer accolades to Jackson, Doster, Meadows, and Wood (1995) on presenting a study that used the rarely seen phenomenological approach of heuristics to examine a very important aspect of science education-the rejection of evolutionary theory. I agree with the authors that a greater understanding of students' views concerning creation and evolution are helpful for evolution educators, and it is in this regard that I wish to help. My comments are limited to the Introduction and Theoretical Background section of the article.

Jackson et al. implicitly defined creation science in the statement: "The alternative point of view [to evolution is] expressed in 'creation science' literature (e.g.

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