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100	1		_aAlters, Brian J. _97795
245	1	0	_aDefending evolution in the classroom : _ba guide to the creation/evolution controversy / _cBrian J. Alters, Sandra M. Alters.
260			_aSudbury, MA : _bJones and Bartlett, _cc2001.
300			_ax, 261 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: FOREWORD by Stephen Jay Gould -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 Creationists Declare War -- Campus Apologetics The War Chest * The Motivation for Attacking -- * Emotional Connectedness * The Unbelievable Battle * Anti-Evolution -- Education Evangelism -- CHAPTER 2 Creationist Students' Culture and Nature of Science -- Perceived Biblical Challenges to Evolution Teaching -- Literalists * Progressives * Theists * Problems with Polls -- Perceived Scientific Challenges to Evolution Teaching -- Scientific Creationism Intelligent Design The General Public -- * Category Solution: Nature of Science -- CHAPTER 3 Why Students Reject Evolution: -- Religious Reasons -- Students'Biblical Scholarship * Biblical Rationales * Study Bibles -- * When Science and Scripture Disagree * Argument and Counterargument -- * Creationist Philosophy -- CHAPTER 4 Why Students Reject Evolution: Nonreligious Reasons -- Characterization of Science * Theory and Law * "Horizontal" vs. "Vertical" -- Evolution * "Missing Links" * Punctuated Equilibrium * Dinosaurs and -- Human Tracks Dating Fossils and Rocks * Origin of Life * Laws of -- Thermodynamics * Plate Tectonics -- CHAPTER 5 Why Should Students Learn Evolution? -- Why is evolution the context of the biological sciences- -- a unifying theory? -- How do evolutionary explanations answer key questions in the -- biological sciences? -- 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? -- How is evolution indispensable to the subdisciplines of biology and how does it -- enrich them? -- What do science and education societies say about the -- study of evolution? -- CHAPTER 6 Questions and Answers: Science Education -- "What do you mean by evolution?" -- "Is it true that evolution is not based on evidence?" -- "How can you teach something that no one can see?" -- "If organisms evolved, then why do they look so well designed?" -- "Why can't intelligent design theory be included in science curricula?" -- "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?" -- "Why is evolution considered a scientific fact?" -- "Why can't you prove evolution to me?" -- "What good is a partial eye, wing, or other structure?" -- "Isn't evolution a theory in crisis?" -- "Do you evolutionists want students to think evolution is scientifically correct -- just because most scientists do?" -- "Why shouldn't scientists invoke the supernatural for creation -- of first life?" -- "What should we do if empirical evidence and materialist philosophy are going -- in different directions?" -- CHAPTER 7 Questions and Answers: Religion -- "Didn't Darwin recant on his deathbed?" -- "Doesn't evolution necessarily lead to moral decay?" -- "Do you know about scientific creationism?" -- "Why would God use such a time-consuming mechanism as evolution?" -- "Are you telling me that miracles don't happen?" -- CHAPTER 8 Questions and Answers: General Education -- "What's wrong with presenting both sides?" -- "Why do you want to brainwash students with evolution?" -- "If science explanations are tentative, why don't we teach -- all explanations?" -- "Why can't evolution be presented in an unbiased manner?" -- CHAPTER 9 Questions from Instructors -- "Isn't it just better to de-emphasize evolution?" -- "What do creationists think of me?" -- "Should I agree to debate a creationist?" -- "How can I learn more about creationists?" -- "Why do students fight evolution education?" -- "Why can't creationists be comfortable with teaching that science gives one -- answer while religion gives another?" -- "What about science teachers who think that evolution -- didn't/doesn't occur?" -- "Are creationists the only ones attacking evolution in academia?" -- CHAPTER 10 Methods for Teaching Evolution -- Students'Alternate Conceptions on Evolution * Students' Confusion of -- Scientific Words with Everyday Words * Addressing Alternate Conceptions -- in the Classroom * Multiple Intelligences Activities -- APPENDIX A Organizations That Support Evolution -- Education -- APPENDIX B Eight Significant Court Decisions Regarding -- Evolution/Creation Issues -- APPENDIX C National Center for Science Education -- APPENDIX D National Association of Biology Teachers: -- Statement on Teaching Evolution -- APPENDIX E An NSTA Position Statement: The Teaching -- of Evolution -- APPENDIX F Evolution Education Research Centre -- Notes -- References -- Index.
520			_aDefending Evolution is a novel handbook that explains why so many secondary and college students reject evolution and are antagonistic toward its teaching. Defending Evolution helps science instructors better understand their students' Creationist beliefs (including those of intelligent design advocates) and the bearing those beliefs have on learning evolution. The book provides instructors with a variety of concise, pragmatic suggestions to help lessen students' anxieties about evolution and to facilitate teaching.
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology) _xStudy and teaching.
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology) _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aCreationism.
700			_aAlters, Sandra. _97799
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001029193.html
856	4	2	_3Book review (E-STREAMS) _uhttp://www.e-streams.com/es0506/es0506_1932.htm
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