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Teaching evolution in a creation nation / Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel.
LIBRA QH362 .L33 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laats, Adam, author.
- Siegel, Harvey, 1952- author.
- Series:
- History and philosophy of education ; 1.
- The History and philosophy of education series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Creationism--Study and teaching.
- Creationism.
- Education--Religious aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Religious aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. In this thoughtful examination of the debate between evolutionary theory and creationism (and creationism's successor: intelligent design), historian Adam Laats and philosopher Harvey Siegel offer crucial new ways to think about not just the debate but how science and religion can make peace in the classroom. Crucial to their approach is the disentangling of belief from knowledge, which, they show, can help us preserve creationism's cultural value as a form of religious dissent and evolution's scientific value as a critical building block of modern knowledge. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The evolution of an educational controversy
- Higher education and a new culture of science
- Evolution education in a jazz age
- The dog that didn't bark
- A new minority
- Evolution, creation, science, religion, and public education
- Beyond "creation science": the scientific status of intelligent design
- Science education: aims and constraints; belief versus understanding
- A question of culture?
- Conclusion evolution as education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226331270
- 022633127X
- 9780226331300
- 022633130X
- OCLC:
- 907811474
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