Science, religion, and education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-33

  Nord, Warren A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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References (24)

1. Carl Sagan, Broca 's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (New York: Random House, 1974), pp. 290-92.
2. This article draws on material developed at considerably greater length in chapters 1, 2, and 7 of Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum (Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998) and in chapters 1 and 4-7 of Warren A. Nord, Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
3. This article draws on material developed at considerably greater length in chapters 1, 2, and 7 of Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum (Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998) and in chapters 1 and 4-7 of Warren A. Nord, Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
4. See Ian Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1997), chap. 4.
5. National Academy of Sciences, Science and Creationism (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1984), pp. 4-6.
6. National Academy of Sciences, Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998), p. 58.
7. "Statement on Teaching Evolution," available from the National Association of Biology Teachers website, www.nabt.org/oldsite/evolution.html.
8. Arthur Peacocks, Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), p. 1.
9. Stephen Jay Gould, Full House (New York: Random House, 1997), chap. 14.
10. "Statement on Teaching Evolution."
11. Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, ed. Francis Darwin (New York: Dover, 1958), p. 63.
12. Pope John Paul II, "Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Evolution," Origins, 14 November 1996.
13. See for example, Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
14. Barbour, pp. 204-6.
15. John Polkinghorne, "Religion in an Age of Science," 1993 McNair Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
16. See Nord and Haynes, chap. 7.
17. Biological Sciences (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1996), p. 16.
18. Conceptual Physics (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 12.
19. Biology (Redwood City, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1993), p. 422.
20. National Research Council, National Science Education Standards (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1996), p. 201.
21. Ibid., p. 36.
22. See Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education (Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity Press, 1995).
23. See Nord and Haynes, pp. 9-10, 36-37.
24. Readers may well wonder about the constitutionality of my proposals. It is uncontroversial that it is permissible to teach about religious views of nature in the public schools, but it can also be argued that such teaching is required if public education is to be truly neutral, in accordance with the courts' interpretation of the First Amendment. See Nord, pp. 241-49, 292-96; and Nord and Haynes, pp. 23-25, 153-55.