d éjà vu all over again: comparing opposition to evolution and global warming
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D éjà vu All Over Again: Comparing Opposition to Evolution and Global Warming. April 23, 2013 CLN Webinar Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D. Executive Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. WWW.NCSE.com. Anti-Evolutionism. Creation Science. Anti-Evolutionism. Creation Science - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Déjà vu All Over Again: Comparing Opposition to
Evolution and Global Warming
April 23, 2013CLN WebinarEugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.
Executive DirectorNational Center for Science Education,
Inc.WWW.NCSE.com
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Anti-Evolutionism
Creation Science
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Anti-Evolutionism
Creation ScienceIntelligent Design
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• It’s not getting warmer
Common Perspectives
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• It’s not getting warmer• It’s getting warmer, but humans aren’t responsible
Common Perspectives
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• It’s not getting warmer• It’s getting warmer, but humans aren’t responsible
• It’s getting warmer, we’re responsible, but we can only accommodate rather than prevent disaster
Common Perspectives
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Great Britain, 2012Planet not warming
7%Planet warming
87%
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Pillars of RejectionScience
Ideology
Culture
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Pillars of RejectionScience
Ideology
Culture
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Questioning the Science
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Distraction
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Skeptical Science’s 160+ list of questions and responses
1. Climate's changed before
2. It's the sun3. It's not bad4. There is no consensus5. It's cooling6. Models are unreliable7. Temp record is
unreliable8. Animals and plants can
adapt9. It hasn't warmed since
199810.Antarctica is gaining
ice11.Ice age predicted in
the 70s
12.CO2 lags temperature13.We're heading into an
ice age14.Ocean acidification
isn't serious15.Hockey stick is broken16.Hurricanes aren't
linked to global warming
17.Glaciers are growing18.Climate sensitivity is
low19.Al Gore got it wrong20.1934 - hottest year on
record21.It's cosmic rays22.It's freaking cold!....
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
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CORE
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CORE
Frontier
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CORE
Frontier
Fringe
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Evolution, Pattern, Process
“Big idea”: Descent with modification/ common ancestry
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Evolution, Pattern, Process
“Big idea”: Descent with modification/ common ancestry
Mechanisms or Factors Effecting Evolution:•-natural selection•-non-selective (drift)•-“evo-devo”
Patterns of Evolution:
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Common Ancestry
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Common Ancestry
Pattern & Process
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Common Ancestry
Pattern & Process
Fringe
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Global Warming
“Big Ideas”:• The planet has
been warming• Humans are
largely responsible for the current accelerated rate of warming
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Global Warming
“Big Ideas”:• The planet has
been warming• Humans are
largely responsible for the current accelerated rate of warming
• How much will ocean rise, by 2100? 2’ or 6’?
• Role of aerosols in cooling?
• Role of oceans as heat sink?
• How much heating is due to humans?
• Etc.
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It’s warmer.Rate = humans
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It’s warmerRate = humans
Details (how much rise )
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It’s warmerRate = humans
Details(how much rise )
Fringe
“it’s just a socialist/liberal plot”
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Pillars of RejectionScience
Ideology
Culture
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Religious Implications of Evolution
Evolution Happened
Challenged Special Creation (literal view of Bible)
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Religious Implications of Evolution
Evolution Happened
Natural Selection Explains It
Challenged Special Creation (literal view of Bible)Challenged direct hand of God as Creator (God less personal)
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ReligiousConservatives
PoliticalConservatives
ReligiousRight
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ReligiousConservatives
PoliticalConservatives
ReligiousRight
Anti-Evolutionists
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ReligiousConservatives Political
Conservatives
ReligiousRight
Global Warming Contrarians
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Political Liberals
PoliticalConservatives
Global Warming Contrarians -2
Libertarians
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US Religious Affili-ations, 2008
Christians, 78.4%
Jews, 1.7%
Other,3.2%
Unaffiliated, 16.1%
Source: Pew Religious Landscape Survey, 2008
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Mainstream Christians, 46%Conservative Christians, 40%Other Re-ligions, 4.9
Divisions of American Christianity
Source: data from Pew Religious Landscape Survey, 2008
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Statements from Religious OrganizationsAmerican Jewish CongressAmerican Scientific AffiliationCenter For Theology And The Natural SciencesCentral Conference Of American RabbisEpiscopal Bishop Of Atlanta, Pastoral LetterGeneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (2002) *
The General Convention Of The Episcopal ChurchLexington Alliance Of Religious LeadersThe Lutheran World FederationRoman Catholic Church (1981)Roman Catholic Church (1996) *Unitarian Universalist Association (1977)Unitarian Universalist Association (1982)United Church Board For Homeland MinistriesUnited Methodist ChurchUnited Presbyterian Church In The U.S.A. (1982)United Presbyterian Church In The U.S.A. (1983)
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Political Conservatism:Not Monolithic!
When it comes to energy and climate… [w]e’re following sentiment, not science, we’re turning a blind eye to accountability, and we’re failing to use the power of markets.
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Political Conservatism:Not Monolithic!
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Pillars of RejectionScience
Ideology
Culture
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“Academic Freedom” Legislation
Alabama 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009Florida 2008, 2011 New Mexico 2009, 2011Louisiana 2008 Maryland 2006Michigan 2006, 2008 Texas 2009, 2011S. Carolina 2008, 2010 Kentucky2010, 2011Missouri 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013Oklahoma 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013Iowa 2009 Indiana 2013Tennessee2011, 2012 Arizona 2013Colorado 2013Montana 2013
www.ncse.com
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“full range of views” “critically evaluate” the “strengths and weaknesses” “arguments for or against” “all relevant scientific information”“understand, critique and review”
Pillar 3: Fairness & Critical Thinking
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The goal should be to get politics out of the classroom, not protect it by banning debate and censoring objective sources of research.Joe Bast, http://blog.heartland.org/2011/08/heartland-replies-to-science/, Aug. 10, 2011
Pillar 3: Fairness & Critical Thinking
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From AFA site: www.academicfreedomact.org/
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Summary: AFA Avoid religion (Establishment
Clause) Stress free speech (academic
freedom) Stress critical thinking Protective bills – teacher license
to teach “alternatives/EAE” Permissive bills – as applied vs
facial challenges
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MO HB 179*MO HB 291CO 13-1089*MT HB 183*OK SB 758OK HB 1674*IN HB 1283* TX HB 285AZ SB1213*
Anti-Science legislation in 2013www.NCSE.com
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www.ncse.com
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www.ncse.com
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Crisis center
www.NCSE.com
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Cell 124:449-451. (Feb 10, 2006)
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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts”. Daniel Patrick Moynihan