Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling

Long, David E.

doi:10.1007/s11422-023-10210-2

Cult Stud of Sci Educ

2024

DOI: 10.1007/s11422-023-10210-2

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Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling

David E. Long

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Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America

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2024

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This FORUM article is written in response to ‘Evolutionary Stasis: creationism, evolution and climate change in the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum’ by Jenna Scaramanga and Michael J. Reiss published in CSSE in 2023. Starting from a sociological rather than pedagogical standpoint, the article aims to situate Accelerated Christian Education’s curriculum in relation to evolution and climate change in its broader context. This broader context comprises a national situation of Culture Wars where views on science and religion are politically polarized and morally inflected. Creationism and climate change denial/skepticism occur together and connect to right-wing politics. Climate change denial also clearly connects to corporate interests. Struggles for political, economic, ideological, and epistemic power all pertain. Reference is then made to recently collected focus group data to illustrate how non-creationist publics may also define science narrowly and inaccurately and yet still support it. The influence of evolution and climate change denialists must not be overstated. However, the harm of inaccurate, pseudoscientific education also requires examination. Nothing less than the Earth’s future is at stake, and education is a key battlefield. Science educators have an important role to play, working with patience, empathy, and awareness.

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Evolution and climate change within the political project of conservative Christian homeschooling

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Creationism and climate skepticism: power and public understandings of science in America

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