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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Overcoming Classroom Skepticism with Evolution in Action
verfasst von : J. Jeffrey Morris
Erschienen in: Evolution in Action: Past, Present and Future
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Public acceptance of evolution is conspicuously low in the United States. This is especially true in the American Southeast, where the famous “Scopes Monkey Trial” made the religious objections of rural Tennesseans to Darwin’s theory famous. In this piece I argue that disbelief in evolution in the Southeast is caused more by social factors than by scientific ones, and I present some efforts that I have successfully used to side-step these social issues in order to effectively teach evolutionary biology to diverse college students in Alabama. I close by calling on other educators to work to defuse the religious, political, and social minefields that separate academic biologists and the public in order to be more effective communicators and teachers of evolution.