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A New Measure of Students’ Perceived Conflict between Evolution and Religion (PCoRE) Is a Stronger Predictor of Evolution Acceptance than Understanding or Religiosity

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Social Perceptions of Science Lab, Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Biology Education Research Lab, Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282

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Yi Zheng

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College & School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282

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Biology Education Research Lab, Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282

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Biology Education Research Lab, Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282

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Published Online:20 Jul 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-02-0024

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Submitted: 2 February 2021

Revised: 1 June 2021

Accepted: 10 June 2021

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© 2021 M. E. Barnes et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We would like to thank the instructors of the courses included in this study who were willing to send our survey to their students and the students who completed the survey. We thank ASU’s Biology Education Research Lab for helpful feedback about this project, and specifically Rachel Scott. This project was supported by National Science Foundation grants IUSE 1818659 and 1712188 as well as a Faculty Creative Research and Activity grant from Middle Tennessee State University.

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