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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Creationists Declare War | |
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| Campus Apologetics | |
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| The War Chest | |
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| The Motivation for Attacking | |
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| Emotional Connectedness | |
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| The Unbelievable Battle | |
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| Anti-Evolution Education Evangelism | |
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| Creationist Students' Culture and Nature of Science | |
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| Perceived Biblical Challenges to Evolution Teaching | |
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| Literalists | |
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| Progressives | |
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| Theists | |
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| Problems with Polls | |
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| Perceived Scientific Challenges to Evolution Teaching | |
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| Scientific Creationism | |
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| Intelligent Design | |
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| The General Public | |
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| Category Solution: Nature of Science | |
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| Why Students Reject Evolution: Religious Reasons | |
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| Students' Biblical Scholarship | |
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| Biblical Rationales | |
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| Study Bibles | |
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| When Science and Scripture Disagree | |
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| Argument and Counterargument | |
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| Creationist Philosophy | |
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| Why Students Reject Evolution: Nonreligious Reasons | |
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| Characterization of Science | |
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| Theory and Law | |
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| "Horizontal" vs. "Vertical" Evolution | |
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| "Missing Links" | |
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| Punctuated Equilibrium | |
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| Dinosaurs and Human Tracks | |
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| Dating Fossils and Rocks | |
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| Origin of Life | |
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| Laws of Thermodynamics | |
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| Plate Tectonics | |
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| Why Should Students Learn Evolution? | |
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| Why is evolution the context of the biological sciences--a unifying theory? | |
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| How do evolutionary explanations answer key questions in the biological sciences? | |
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| How does understanding evolution help us understand processes that affect our health and our day-to-day life? And how are evolutionary methods applied to other fields? | |
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| How is evolution indispensable to the subdisciplines of biology and how does it enrich them? | |
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| What do science and education societies say about the study of evolution? | |
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| Questions and Answers: Science Education | |
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| "What do you mean by evolution?" | |
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| "Is it true that evolution is not based on evidence?" | |
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| "How can you teach something that no one can see?" | |
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| "If organisms evolved, then why do they look so well designed?" | |
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| "Why can't intelligent design theory be included in science curricula?" | |
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| "Because scientists don't know every detail of how evolution occurs, shouldn't they at least consider supernatural causes as scientific explanations and teach such possibilities in the science classroom?" | |
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| "Why is evolution considered a scientific fact?" | |
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| "Why can't you prove evolution to me?" | |
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| "What good is a partial eye, wing, or other structure?" | |
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| "Isn't evolution a theory in crisis?" | |
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| "Do you evolutionists want students to think evolution is scientifically correct just because most scientists do?" | |
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| "Why shouldn't scientists invoke the supernatural for creation of first life?" | |
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| "What should we do if empirical evidence and materialist philosophy are going in different directions?" | |
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| Questions and Answers: Religion | |
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| "Didn't Darwin recant on his deathbed?" | |
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| "Doesn't evolution necessarily lead to moral decay?" | |
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| "Do you know about scientific creationism?" | |
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| "Why would God use such a time-consuming mechanism as evolution?" | |
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| "Are you telling me that miracles don't happen?" | |
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| Questions and Answers: General Education | |
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| "What's wrong with presenting both sides?" | |
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| "Why do you want to brainwash students with evolution?" | |
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| "If science explanations are tentative, why don't we teach all explanations?" | |
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| "Why can't evolution be presented in an unbiased manner?" | |
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| Questions from Instructors | |
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| "Isn't it just better to de-emphasize evolution?" | |
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| "What do creationists think of me?" | |
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| "Should I agree to debate a creationist?" | |
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| "How can I learn more about creationists?" | |
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| "Why do students fight evolution education?" | |
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| "Why can't creationists be comfortable with teaching that science gives one answer while religion gives another?" | |
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| "What about science teachers who think that evolution didn't/doesn't occur?" | |
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| "Are creationists the only ones attacking evolution in academia?" | |
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| Methods for Teaching Evolution | |
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| Students' Alternate Conceptions on Evolution | |
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| Students' Confusion of Scientific Words with Everyday Words | |
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| Addressing Alternate Conceptions in the Classroom | |
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| Multiple Intelligences | |
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| Activities | |
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| Organizations That Support Evolution Education | |
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| Eight Significant Court Decisions Regarding Evolution/Creation Issues | |
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| National Center for Science Education | |
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| National Association of Biology Teachers: Statement on Teaching Evolution | |
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| An NSTA Position Statement: The Teaching of Evolution | |
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| Evolution Education Research Centre | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |