Putting Darwin in His Place: The Need to Watch Our Language

Autor/inn/en	Braterman, Paul S.; Holbrook, J. Britt
Titel	Putting Darwin in His Place: The Need to Watch Our Language
Quelle	In: American Biology Teacher, 71 (2009) 2, S.84-88 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-7685
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Evolution; Public Relations; Paleontology; Creationism; Chemistry; Nuclear Physics; Theories; Biology; Intervention; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Public relation work; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; Paläontologie; Schöpfungstheologie; Chemie; Atomphysik; Kernphysik; Theory; Theorie; Biologie
Abstract	In this article, the authors examine the use of language in debating evolution, and suggest careful choice of the terms by which people describe both themselves and their opponents. Present-day evolution science is solidly based on fact, and is as far advanced from Charles Darwin's original theory as present-day chemistry is from Dalton's atomic theory. For this reason and others, the common practice of referring to the current understanding of evolution as "Darwin's theory" is ill judged, inaccurate, and a public relations blunder. Only partly tongue-in-cheek, the authors also propose language to describe the opponents of evolution science. They suggest "Supernaturalist" as a blanket term for all creationists and intelligent design advocates who deny that biology can ever be explained by the ordinary laws of nature. Within these, the authors distinguish resurgent "Paleyists" who maintain that biological complexity must be the handiwork of a Designer, "Flintstone creationists" who believe that humans and dinosaurs coexisted on a young Earth, and "Occasional creationists" who believe in repeated separate divine creations on multiple occasions for different kinds of organism. (Contains 1 footnote and 3 online resources.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10