Accepting, understanding, teaching, and learning (human) evolution: Obstacles and opportunities

B Pobiner - American journal of physical anthropology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Questions about our origin as a species are universal and compelling. Evolution—and in
particular human evolution—is a subject that generates intense interest across the world …

Role models, compatibility, and knowledge lead to increased evolution acceptance

DG Ferguson, JL Jensen - Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2021 - Springer
Background Evolution acceptance is still low in the United States, especially among
religious students. Due to low acceptance, researchers have used a wide variety of methods …

Predicting evolution acceptance among religious students using the predictive factors of evolution acceptance and reconciliation (pFEAR) instrument

DG Ferguson, RA Larsen, EG Bailey… - Evolution: Education and …, 2024 - Springer
Evolution is one of the controversial topics in biology primarily because of the perceived
conflict between religion and evolution. Religiosity is one of the biggest predictors of …

Student Acceptance of Evolution: Factors That Lead to Change

DG Ferguson, JL Jensen, A Arok… - Journal of College …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Acceptance of human evolution seems to be the majority position for the US population;
however, acceptance of evolution among conservative Christian groups is low, sometimes …

Development and validation of the Perspective Scale on the Origin of Life and Biodiversity (PSOLB)

S Yeşilyurt - Journal of Biological Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Developing and validating a perspective scale of a student's acceptance or rejection of the
evolution and abiogenesis theories regarding the origin of life and biodiversity is potentially …

A Day in the Life of Carlton Smith: the bombardment of evolution misconceptions

DG Ferguson, JL Jensen - The American Biology Teacher, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
The United States still has one of the lowest evolution acceptance rates in the world. Biology
educators have been diligent in their methods to increase evolution acceptance and …

A journey to acceptance: A study of biology majors' attitudes toward evolution throughout their university coursework

C Talbot, Z George, TH Ogden - Journal of College Science …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The main objective of this study was to characterize the acceptance of evolution among
biology majors. Semi-structured interviews were carried out to track the opinions of students …

Acceptance Finds a Way: How to Teach and Use Evolution's Explanatory Power

DG Ferguson - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The theory of evolution is the central combing theory that brings together all the tenets of
biology that bring about a solid understanding of life. It is also one of the most controversial …

[图书][B] You are set free

JL Mitchell - 2014 - search.proquest.com
Abstract You Are Set Free is a four-movement orchestra work depicting the story of the
disabled woman in Luke 13. The first movement is a picture of her inner conflict of hope and …

[PDF][PDF] LSU Scholarly Repositor y

KS Mitchell - Ann Arbor, 1849 - repository.lsu.edu
This study is a directed content analysis that employs a memetic framework done in order to
determine what discourses are evident in, how diversity is represented in, and how …