Assuming that younger Americans — and their children — continue the trend toward greater acceptance, we can expect the overall level of
acceptance of evolution in America to increase over time as the older, less accepting generations pass.
The highest level of
acceptance of evolution and the lowest level of belief that humans were recently created are found among the religiously unaffiliated.
Regardless of specific contributing factors, increasing
acceptance of evolution is crucial.
«If we encourage national policy documents that promote these teaching practices,» says study co-author Elizabeth Barnes of Arizona State, «perhaps we can increase
acceptance of evolution among our students, future teachers and future political leaders.»
In most instances, where content scores increased, so did
acceptance of evolution.
With these two data points in hand, the Penn team tested whether a relationship existed between knowledge and
acceptance of evolution.
Education experts suggest that in some cultural contexts one way to encourage
acceptance of evolution is by not shunning religious beliefs
The study also looked at whether students»
acceptance of evolution increased following exposure to the topic in college classrooms.
In contrast to adults,
acceptance of evolution in schoolchildren in the UK is linked to their scientific aptitude rather than conflicts with belief systems, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.
They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for
acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.
«The only group of students who improved in
their acceptance of evolution was the group of students who were the least religious,» Rissler said.
«Whether
acceptance of evolution is the goal may depend on what you define acceptance to be.
The study, said to be the first in - depth analysis on
the acceptance of evolution in this region, has been accepted for publication in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach.
If you believe that
acceptance of evolution comes down purely to blind faith, you clearly have not looked closely into science in general, let alone evolution in particular.
I was, however, asked by our pastor not to talk to anyone in the church about
my acceptance of evolution (and trust me — I hadn't been) because it was «dangerous».
I mean, forget the Catholic Church's
acceptance of evolution, the Big Bang, their pursuit of mathematics, quantum physics, astronomy, etc..
American youth polls show they are much more supportive of gay rights, women's reproductive rights,
acceptance of evolution, etc..
Not exact matches
We are at an important juncture in the
evolution of the connected health market, with increased interest from major companies, investors, government agencies and consumers, as well as growing
acceptance from healthcare providers.
Some
of you believers want to give creation science the same level
of acceptance as
evolution in OUR schools.
The American Association
of Christian Schools, with more than 1,000 member institutions, makes as a condition
of affiliation
acceptance of the statement, «We believe in creation, not
evolution.»
Instead
of affirming the idea
of evolution as supporting atheism or rejecting it because it did so, some Christians took the position that its
acceptance changes the way we understand God's work in the world.
We have reached that point in the
evolution of the human species where traditional tribalism must be superseded by the
acceptance of the essential unity
of all human society.
If
evolution explained only the rest
of life and not human origins, there would be much more
acceptance.
SCHÖNBORN REFINED The important debate over the nature
of the Church's
acceptance of the theory
of evolution has been refined over the last couple
of...
Weblog after weblog manifests this, with commentators clearly seeing Schönborn's intervention as shifting the weight
of the Church's position from a scientific
acceptance of the theory
of evolution to an unscientific belief ina version
of creationism.
The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture
of biblical literalism with its repudiation
of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an
acceptance of the contributions
of science,
of evolution and Freudian psychology,
of a «higher criticism»
of the Bible,
of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and
of a rearrangement
of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.
Indeed, insofar as that tradition «itself is in full process
of evolution» (PAG 66), one might further surmise that someday the thought
of Hegel and Whitehead will be seen as preparatory to a more comprehensive processive world view which will enjoy the same unquestioned
acceptance as systems
of classical metaphysics in generations past.
SCHÖNBORN REFINED The important debate over the nature
of the Church's
acceptance of the theory
of evolution has been refined over the last couple
of months, allowing a clarification
of the key issues.
WARNING: The teaching
of Evolution and the acceptance of the 150 + years and mountains of gathered evidence that supports evolution is hazardous to one's faith (d
Evolution and the
acceptance of the 150 + years and mountains
of gathered evidence that supports
evolution is hazardous to one's faith (d
evolution is hazardous to one's faith (delusion).
[4] The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to
acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological
evolution occurs.
The
evolution of humanity doesn't hinge on passivity and the
acceptance of rote answers.
A timeline describes the declension from the biblicism
of Martin Luther and John Calvin to the thought
of Descartes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Darwin and Charles Hodge (he may be an archconservative to most Presbyterians, but his
acceptance of Darwinism lands him in the hall
of shame here) to a certain Charles Templeton, who once traveled with Billy Graham but unfortunately accepted
evolution and ended up writing the atheist tract Farewell to God.
Scholarly
acceptance of physical
evolution suggested that culture, too, must have evolved, must have risen through stages on the way to modern times, each stage with its own religious orientation and style
of life.
2 By 1890 J. R. Illingworth, an influential Anglican theologian, was able to write: «The last few years have witnessed the gradual
acceptance by Christian thinkers
of the great scientific generalization
of our time, the Theory
of Evolution.»
students who were taught
evolution or neither
evolution nor creationism in high school had significantly higher
acceptance rates
of evolution than those taught both
evolution and creationism or just creationism;
This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma
of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general
acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and
evolution of the universe.
Through careful analysis
of Darwin's notes and journals, Sulloway dates Darwin's
acceptance of the fact
of evolution to the second week
of March 1837, after a meeting Darwin had with the eminent English ornithologist John Gould, who had been studying his Galpagos bird specimens.
They found that whilst the teaching
of evolution increased
acceptance rates to over 80 per cent in the cohort examined, the order
of teaching had no effect.
Qualitative focus group follow - up studies showed that
acceptance is heavily conditioned by authority figures (teachers, TV personalities, religious figures) and the correlation between the students» understanding
of evolution and their
acceptance of it is weak.
The 60 percent level
of acceptance of human
evolution includes all adults.
It seemed like the perfect
evolution of the franchise, particularly it's
acceptance of various gauges and finishing moves.
In its ongoing exploration
of the most exciting threads
of the future
of interactive entertainment, GAMEHOTEL turned its focus on the latest trends in the
evolution towards a more mainstream
acceptance of games.
Similarly, in relation to religiosity the Millennials are the least polarized on
acceptance of human
evolution.
It seems that, certainly during my career, the way law firms handled litigation has changed significantly only in the day I have gone from a couple
of lawyers at the table to huge teams, some
of them at the table, some
of them back in their home office, some
of them up and sitting in a corporate counsel's office all following closely what's going on and I am sure that helped drive the
evolution and the
acceptance of your technology.
Integrated Family Therapy: A Paramodern Position: the text on this website constitutes an
evolution of the central ideas contained in the first edition
of the book, by bringing in new findings from the neurosciences and epigenetics as well as reflecting our understanding and
acceptance of post-modern ideas as these have come to shape family therapy since the first edition.