Secularism & science in the 21st century
By: edited by Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin
Contributors: Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hartford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780615196343
Subjects: Religion and science; Science; Evolution (Biology); Secularism; Education and state; Study and teaching; Creationism; Religion in the public schools
Other titles: Secularism and science in the twenty-first century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Secularism and science in the 21st century / -- Ariela Keysar & Barry A. Kosmin -- The evolution-creation conflict.; title: Science education and religion in America in the 21st century: holding the center  -- Jon D. Miller & Robert T. Pennock; title: Creationist attack on science and secular society  -- Daniel G. Blackburn; title: Evolution education and the science-religion conflict: dispatches from a philosophical correspondent  -- Austin Dacey; title: Cultural particularity of conflict between "religion" and "science" in a global context  -- Frank L. Pasquale -- Teaching science.; title: Competing influence of secularism and religion on science education in a secular society  -- William Cobern; title: Implementing methodological secularism: the teaching and practice of science in contentious times  -- David E. Henderson; title: U.S. public education: a battleground from the ivory tower to first grade  -- Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; title: Toward a clear frontier between science and religion in education  -- Juan Antonio Aguilera Mocho n -- Scientific literacy and public policy.; title: Why can't science tell the truth? Scientific literacy in a postmodern world  -- Jeffrey Burkhardt; title: Salience of secular values and scientific literacy for American democracy  -- Barry A. Kosmin & Juhem Navarro-Rivera; title: High school students' opinions about science education -- Ariela Keysar & Frank L. Pasquale.