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Classroom One of the greatest needs for biology instruction is
an understanding of why many students consider a fundamental
theory of science to be faulty and what to do about it
pedagogically. A deeper understanding of students' underpinning
religious beliefs concerning evolution, the age of the earth,
and science in general benefits biology instructors (and other
science instructors as well) in helping to comprehend students'
learning roadblocks, why the roadblocks exist, the history of
the roadblocks, and why everyone does not share such roadblocks.
Naturally such an understanding is helpful, but also important
is how instructors can nevertheless increase student
understanding of such a publicly controversial topic as
evolution. Appropriately, the National Science Teachers
Association published a 56-page booklet containing two chapters
responding to these two needs of understanding and strategies:
The Creation Controversy & the Science Classroom.