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From: Educators of Prospective Teachers Hesitate to Embrace Evolution Due to Deficient Understanding of Science/Evolution and High Religiosity

Fig. 3

Percentage of New England general faculty (Gen Fac, white bars left), educators of prospective teachers (Edu, black bars center), and college students (Stu, white bars right) who think one of the following statements fits best their position concerning evolution: a hearing about evolution makes me appreciate the factual explanation about the origin of life on Earth and its place in the universe; and b hearing about evolution makes no difference to me because evolution and creationism are in harmony. Comparisons among groups: Chi-square = 18.538, df = 2, P ≤ 0.001; lowercase letters indicate sign test two-tail pair-wise comparisons P ≤ 0.05. Gen Fac, n = 236; Edu, n = 59; and Stu, n = 712

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Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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