The creationist down the hall: Does it matter when teachers teach creationism?

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-435

  Moore, Randy ^a   Cotner, Sehoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology majors; Creationism; Evolution; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649772115     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.10     Document Type: Article

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