Diversity of students' views about evidence, theory, and the interface between science and religion in an astronomy course

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 340-362

  Brickhouse, Nancy W ^a   Dagher, Zoubeida R ^a   Letts IV, William J ^b   Shipman, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0003326303     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(200004)37:4<340::AID-TEA4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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