Evolution education in light of religious science teachers’ and scientists’ conceptions of evolution and religion

Table 5 A summary of the combinations of approaches that the participants indicated as best describing their personal view, according to the questionnaire and interview, and the number of participants who showed each combination

According to SRSII questionnaire		According to the interview
Approach	#Participants	Approach	#Participants
Contrast	7	Contrast	6
Contrast	7	Coalescence	1^a
Complementary	13	Contrast	6^a
		Complementary	5
		Coalescence	2^b

^aInterviewees declared one approach in the interview and a different approach in the questionnaire
^bThese two teachers talked in the interview about the coalescence view, but also had motifs of the complementary view, and their answers were therefore not considered to be inconsistent

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