"Evolution and Religion in American Education" shines a light
into one of America's dark educational corners, exposing the
regressive pedagogy that can invade science classrooms when school
boards and state overseers take their eyes off the ball. It sets
out to examine the development of college students' attitudes
towards biological evolution through their lives. The fascinating
insights provided by interviewing students about their world views
adds up to a compelling case for additional scrutiny of the way
young people's educational experiences unfold as they consider-and
indeed in some cases reject-one of science's strongest and most
cogent theoretical constructs. Inevitably, open discussion and
consideration of the theory of evolution can chip away at the
mental framework constructed by Creationists, eroding the
foundations of their faith. The conceptual battleground is so
fraught with logical challenges to Creationist dogma that in a
number of cases students' exposure to such dangerous ideas is
actively prevented. This book provides a detailed map of this
astonishing struggle in today's America-a struggle many had thought
was done and dusted with the onset of the Enlightenment.
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