Rejecting D arwin and Support for Science Funding

Patricia K. Freeman · David J. Houston

10 citations0/0 files storedSocial Science Quarterly

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Evolution and Science Education Religion and Society Interactions Science and Science Education

Abstract

Objective Examine variables relating to support for science in the United States to determine whether a rejection of Darwinian evolution is related to support for government funding of science. Methods Ordinal logistic regression using questions from the 2006 General Social Survey. Results A rejection of human evolution is significantly related to support for science even after controlling for a variety of variables. Conclusion Beliefs regarding human evolution have a unique effect on attitudes regarding government support for scientific research that do not merely channel religion and/or politics. Debate today over evolutionary theory revolves around what constitutes good science. Those who reject Darwinian evolution may do so because of the messages critical of scientists and the scientific method. A possible consequence of this controversy is lower support for science.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 10 citations exist upstream.

References

2008Political Ideology: Its Structure, Functions, and Elective Affinities 2004Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press 1992Culture wars: the struggle to define America 2003Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy 2021The General Social Surveys 2006The Republican war on science 1994Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics.1997The Impact of Protestant Fundamentalism on Educational Attainment

Cited by

2020It All Depends on What You Want to Believe: How Young Adults Navigate Religion and Science 2018Public responses to scientific research: Does disciplinary attribution matter?

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.