Viele Amerikaner lehnen die wissenschaftliche Evolutionstheorie ab, wobei der biblische Literalismus ein Schlüsselfaktor dieser Ablehnung vorantreibt. Das Auffrischen der biblischen Interpretation hilft religiösen Studenten, die Evolution ohne offensichtlichen Verlust der Religiosität zu akzeptieren.
Reframing biblical interpretation helps religious students accept evolution
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
Offering Alternatives to Biblical Literalism May Be the Key to Increasing the Public’s Acceptance of Evolution
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.70004
From the linked article:
**Reframing biblical interpretation helps religious students accept evolution**
**Many Americans continue to reject the scientific theory of evolution, particularly those who identify as religious. A new study provides evidence that biblical literalism—the belief that the Bible should be interpreted as the direct and factual word of God—is a key factor driving this rejection**. But the findings also suggest that when students are exposed to an educational approach that respects religious beliefs while presenting evolution in a compatible framework, their acceptance of evolution tends to increase—**without any apparent loss in religiosity**.
I think it’s good that they found this, but as a science teacher at a public school, I really can’t take this approach. I shouldn’t be teaching any sort of theology. When students have brought it up (after discussing geology or astronomy ideas about the age of the Earth or the universe) I have suggested that there are many different interpretations of religious texts across religions. If they bring up Christianity in particular, I suggest they seek other Biblical interpretations. I imagine I’d get in trouble for going any farther than that.
If random is mentioned anywhere in the model, let’s hope for rationale’s sake they continue to not accept it.
What is a day through the eyes of eternity?
So interpretation gives them something to ease their cognitive dissonance.
Evolution is a theory and not a good one. It’s archaic and troubled.
In other words, tens of millions of Americans are in religious psychosis and need psychiatric intervention.
I went to a Christian high school and did my senior research paper on this subject- mainly, how evolution and Christianity could be interpreted together, how evolution doesn’t disprove creation, etc…
I don’t remember the specifics as this was over 15 years ago but my science teacher loved it. ( I’m not religious anymore)
Of course this came out of BYU. This looks a lot like the next stage of dissembling from religious people whose God gaps keep shrinking. First it was denial, then intelligent design, now compatibilism.
I would much rather reduce students‘ religiosity than convince them that evolution is real.
Just pretend the sky daddy made evolution happen and boom you can sleep at night
I struggle with the theory of evolution because it undermines my feeling about racism and eugenics.
I just hope they’re not mixing fabrics
As a kid raised in the church I said „couldn’t god have just designed everything and thrown it in a ball that exploded into the big bang? Couldn’t he still have created everything that then evolved?“
And I was told „no“…
Abrahamic religion is child abuse
God taking a rib from Adam to make Eve sounds a lot like gene editing to me
How would you describe gene editing and chromosomes to someone 2000 years ago?
I wish we could teach the historicity of the Bible before teaching it, but that’d make people not take the Bible literally which is the goal by Conservatives. Understanding the historical context of the Bible has helped me so much. I love learning about how gods slowly evolved into the sole Abrahamic God, how rules and stories developed over long periods of time into Biblical stories. The fact that the story of Sodom & Gomorrah wasn’t even about gay people was the start of my deconstruction.
Yeah, people are stupid and getting stupider. Reality got to hard fir them so they rejected it.
Christians cramming their fanatical extremist book club down everyone’s throats will never not be pathetically exhausting.
I grew up in an evangelical family who was/is strongly against evolution. It has been a struggle talking to them about scientific topics that have anything to do with the “E” word.
What I have found common ground with, is explaining to them that when they hear the word evolution it doesn’t automatically mean abiogenesis. And if they read something with that word, just to replace it with the word mutation in their mind (yes I know they’re different, but my goal is concept communication not academic discourse).
My family is intelligent and loves to learn, it’s just unfortunate that their minds have been hijacked by antiquated beliefs.
It is my hope to accept that scientific discoveries not specifically referenced in the Bible don’t need to be in opposition to their beliefs, which I have no intention of trying to change
If you believe in Angels without objective evidence, you don’t get to reject science without objective evidence.
The Catholic Church itself doesn’t even believe in biblical literalism. At some point people just aren’t interested in learning or understanding.
I’m a little dumb so if you guys can help here I’d appreciate it. The article says they sent surveys out, found a group of 408 they deemed religious enough then asked them about evolution. Then they went to an unnamed private university that they also deemed religious to survey a group of students in a biology class. After a round of surveys they found that the more religious someone is, the more likely they’d interpret the Bible literally.
So wouldn’t the headline be more accurate if it said “Many *religious* Americans……”
Am I missing something? I’m just a student but isn’t it a little reaching to say this is a nationwide study with just a small sample size? ~20ish percent of the sample size being from a private religious university.
For the record I believe we crawled out of the primordial muck and slowly evolved over time.
It seems really difficult to believe that biblical literalism is the leading cause of evolution denial. You see far more of that with the far-left and blank slatism, even at the university level.
The fact that people choose to believe in god but that he didn’t give life the ability to adapt and survive is actually funny to me.