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Awareness of papal statements and evolution acceptance among brazilian catholic seminarians
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This article is published in Zygon.The article was published on 2021-05-27. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Creationism & Intelligent design.read more
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No Missing Link: Knowledge Predicts Acceptance of Evolution in the United States | Kogi State University Open Education Resources (OER)
TL;DR: Using a new demographically representative survey that includes a detailed measure of evolution knowledge, it is found that knowledge predicts level of acceptance, even after accounting for the effects of religion and politics.
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Student conceptions of natural selection and its role in evolution
B. Bishop,Charles W. Anderson +1 more
TL;DR: Pretests and post tests on the topic of evolution by natural selection were administered to students in a college non-majors' biology course as mentioned in this paper, and test responses revealed that most students understood evolution as a process in which species respond to environmental conditions by changing gradually over time.
Student Conceptions of Natural Selection and Its Role in Evolution, Research Series No. l65.
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Intentions and beliefs in students' understanding and acceptance of biological evolution
TL;DR: This article examined the intersection of students' understanding and acceptance of evolution and their epistemological beliefs and cognitive dispositions, and found that students who viewed knowledge as changing and who have a disposition toward open-minded thinking would be more likely to accept the scientific explanation of human evolution, and that beliefs and dispositions would not be related to acceptance of a topic that is generally perceived as noncontroversial.
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Evolutionary Theory, the Nature of Science & High School Biology Teachers: Critical Relationships
TL;DR: For example, despite the fact that evolutionary theory is extremely well-supported and non-controversial within the scientific community, it has not been as well received by the general public as discussed by the authors.