Evolution and religion: attitudes of Scottish first year biology and medical students to the teaching of evolutionary biology

Autor:	J.R. Downie, N.J. Barron
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Religious belief Islam Biological evolution Biology Christianity Education Faith Principal (commercial law) Sociology Social science General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Period (music) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Biological Education. 34:139-146
ISSN:	2157-6009 0021-9266
DOI:	10.1080/00219266.2000.9655704
Popis:	Over a 12 year period, 4 – 11 per cent of a large first year Scottish university biology class stated that they rejected the occurrence of biological evolution. There was a slight, but statistically significant, decline in evolution- rejection over the 12 years. In the one year surveyed, the figure for medical students was 10 per cent. Most evolution-rejectors accepted the occurrence of within-species evolutionary changes: their objection was to the origin of new species. Acceptance of a literal religious creation account was the principal reason for rejecting evolution, whereas those accepting did so more on grounds of the lack of good alternative explanations, than on the strength of the evidence. Rejection of evolution correlated strongly with religious belief — mainly various sorts of Christianity or Islam. However, over half of those accepting evolution also claimed to have a religious faith. When asked to evaluate the evidence for various scientific propositions, including evolution, evolution-rejec...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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