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| Author | : Karl S. Rosengren |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2012-04-25 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0199730423 |
This book goes beyond the science versus religion dispute to ask why evolution is so often rejected as a legitimate scientific fact, focusing on a wide range of cognitive, socio-cultural, and motivational factors that make concepts such as evolution difficult to grasp.
| Author | : Karl S. Rosengren |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2012-04-23 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0199909180 |
A recent poll revealed that one in four Americans believe in both creationism and evolution, while another 41% believe that creationism is true and evolution is false. A minority (only 13%) believe only in evolution. Given the widespread resistance to the idea that humans and other animals have evolved and given the attention to the ongoing debate of what should be taught in public schools, issues related to the teaching and learning of evolution are quite timely. Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution goes beyond the science versus religion dispute to ask why evolution is so often rejected as a legitimate scientific fact, focusing on a wide range of cognitive, socio-cultural, and motivational factors that make concepts such as evolution difficult to grasp. The volume brings together researchers with diverse backgrounds in cognitive development and education to examine children's and adults' thinking, learning, and motivation, and how aspects of representational and symbolic knowledge influence learning about evolution. The book is organized around three main challenges inherent in teaching and learning evolutionary concepts: folk theories and conceptual biases, motivational and epistemological biases, and educational aspects in both formal and informal settings. Commentaries across the three main themes tie the book together thematically, and contributors provide ideas for future research and methods for improving the manner in which evolutionary concepts are conveyed in the classroom and in informal learning experiences. Evolution Challenges is a unique text that extends far beyond the traditional evolution debate and is an invaluable resource to researchers in cognitive development, science education and the philosophy of science, science teachers, and exhibit and curriculum developers.
| Author | : Tim Lewens |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199674183 |
Tim Lewens explores what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why this approach is often treated with suspicion. He makes an original case for the value of evolutionary thinking for students of culture, and shows why the concerns of sceptics should not dismissed as mere prejudice, confusion, or ignorance.
| Author | : Heather Heying |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2021-09-14 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0593086880 |
A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond? For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerating rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex—and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us. In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and exploring Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today’s pressing social ills—from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and backward education practices. Asking the questions many modern people are afraid to ask, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.
| Author | : Michael J. Behe |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2019-02-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0062842684 |
The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin’s mechanism works, weakening the theory’s validity even more. A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution—damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes. In addition to disputing the methodology of Darwinism and how it conflicts with the concept of creation, Behe reveals that what makes Intelligent Design unique—and right—is that it acknowledges causation. Evolution proposes that organisms living today are descended with modification from organisms that lived in the distant past. But Intelligent Design goes a step further asking, what caused such astounding changes to take place? What is the reason or mechanism for evolution? For Behe, this is what makes Intelligent Design so important.
| Author | : Daniel W. Houck |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2020-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108493696 |
Drawing on Aquinas, Houck proposes a groundbreaking theory of original sin that is theologically robust and consonant with evolutionary theory.
| Author | : Paul R. Myrant |
| Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009-04 |
| Genre | : Creationism |
| ISBN | : 1606048279 |
Can an intelligent person believe that God created the earth in six days and that the universe is just thousands of years old? In today's postmodern atmosphere, is it rational to believe in God, objective truth, and moral absolutes? Atheistic evolution, with its reliance on philosophical naturalism as a major presupposition, wants to say that mere chance is the only explanation for the universe. Yet, is this true? Should Christians be forced to abandon their faith just because their college textbook tells them to do so? With the onslaught of the 'New Atheism, ' it is high time for Christians to know what they believe and why they believe it. When modern philosophers and scientists' mock faith, ignore the Creator, and reject the authority of the Word of God, Christians need to be armed with the proper tools in order to combat such philosophies. Join new author Paul Myrant in The Challenge of Evolution as he gives a rational justification for the belief in God and the Bible. Students, teachers, and professors will find Paul Myrant's arguments insightful, intriguing, and compelling as they search for the truth concerning the origins of the universe. Paul Myrant, a graduate of Talbot Seminary, received his Master of Arts degree in biblical studies. He and his wife, Jan, have been married for 31 years. They have four children and three grandchildren. He has served as a senior pastor, teacher, and coach for over three decades. Paul's wide range of experiences and interactions with people has prepared him to understand and address the complexities of creationism and evolution.
| Author | : Paul Humphreys |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 960 |
| Release | : 2016-08-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190630701 |
This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the traditional topics in the philosophy of science, such as causation, probability, models, ethics and values, and explanation. Section III identifies new areas of investigation that show promise of becoming important areas of research, including the philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, data, complexity theory, neuroscience, simulations, post-Kuhnian philosophy, post-empiricist epistemology, and emergence. Most chapters are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to professional philosophers, and the contributors - all leading researchers in their field -- bring diverse perspectives from the North American, European, and Australasian research communities. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and students.
| Author | : Johan De Smedt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-02-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108626815 |
This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious worldviews tend to presuppose a teleological understanding of the origins of living things, but scientists mostly understand evolution as non-teleological. Second, religious and scientific accounts of human origins do not align in a straightforward sense. Third, evolutionary explanations of religion, including religious beliefs and practices, may cast doubt on their justification. We show how these tensions arise and offer potential responses for religion. Individual religions can meet these challenges, if some of their metaphysical assumptions are adapted or abandoned.
| Author | : Fereidoon Sioshansi |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 867 |
| Release | : 2013-06-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0123979064 |
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