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2 aspects of religiousness linked to non-bias + Religion still impeding evolution edu

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New study identifies two aspects of religiousness that are linked to non-prejudice
https://www.psypost.org/2019/08/new-stud...dice-54159

EXCERPT: New research helps explain why religious belief can be both positively and negatively associated with prejudicial attitudes. The findings have been published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. “My colleagues and I observed that the relationship between religiousness and prejudice is complex,” said study author James A. Shepperd, the R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. “Some religious people are highly prejudiced. Previous research has indicated that the prejudice corresponds with being dogmatic, obedient, and punitive in one’s religious beliefs. Yet other religious people appear non-prejudiced. We sought to identify aspects of religiousness that are linked to non-prejudice.”

[...] The study — like all research — includes some limitations. ... “Our sample was adolescents from Florida who were mostly Christian. It remains to be seen whether our findings generalize to adults, to people in other parts of the country/world, and to people who belong to other religions. We have no reason to believe that our findings our unique to our sample, but these effects deserve replication,” Shepperd told PsyPost. “Our study relied on self-reports. Although the responses were completely anonymous, our sample may not have been completely forthcoming and their reports may not match their behaviors.” (MORE - details)



Religion 'still getting in the way of teaching human evolution'
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-a...evolution/

INTRO: More than a decade after human evolution received fully-fledged status in the school curriculum, many teachers either don't understand it or object to teaching it on religious grounds. “Life sciences teachers in South Africa are opposed to teaching evolution, mainly because they lack the content knowledge to do so, and they are concerned about the controversial nature of the topic, specifically as it relates to religion," said a University of Pretoria anthropologist who examined the progress of evolution education.

Reporting her findings in the South African Journal of Science, Clarisa Sutherland added: "Some teachers experience a conflict between their own religious beliefs and the requirement to teach evolution." The apartheid education system ignored evolution and "the ‘hidden’ curriculum during the time made creationism, patriotism, race relations and religion part of the everyday school experience of white learners,” said Sutherland. “This problem is the fact that evolution is an inherently difficult concept to teach and learn. The lack of education, along with sometimes deliberate misdirection, has, regrettably, fuelled the growth of misconceptions in evolutionary theory.” (MORE)
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Syne Offline
Or maybe Africans especially don't like being told they come from apes.
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Seattle Offline
(Aug 4, 2019 07:38 PM)Syne Wrote: Or maybe Africans especially don't like being told they come from apes.

Some people don't like being told the Earth isn't flat.
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(Aug 4, 2019 07:43 PM)Seattle Wrote:
(Aug 4, 2019 07:38 PM)Syne Wrote: Or maybe Africans especially don't like being told they come from apes.

Some people don't like being told the Earth isn't flat.

Yeah, but they don't have a history of being unfavorably compared to a round earth.

Funny how CC explicitly left out the way religious people are not prejudice.

In other words, participants who agreed more strongly with statements such as “religious beliefs influence all my dealings in life” were more likely to also say they felt more “warm” towards Black individual and more “cold” toward gay individuals.

“Why the difference? Religious people appear to view homosexuality, but not skin color, as a violation of their religious values. They reject people with beliefs contrary to their religious values,” Shepperd explained.

This ties in with what I just posted: https://www.scivillage.com/thread-7442.html
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Quote:many teachers either don't understand it or object to teaching it on religious grounds

Does this mean they don’t teach what they don’t know or they’re too scared to learn it? 

Casually speaking......is it that we can teach/force religion under threat of harm but educating people about evolution lacks that advantage? Regardless, it’s a bit ironic because the evolutionary process is actually in charge here. Don’t teach...low risk. Teach....be at risk.
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(Aug 5, 2019 02:00 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Casually speaking......is it that we can teach/force religion under threat of harm but educating people about evolution lacks that advantage? Regardless, it’s a bit ironic because the evolutionary process is actually in charge here. Don’t teach...low risk. Teach....be at risk.


In the context of naturalistic viewpoint and analysis, evolution even outright invented and instilled the precursor beliefs for generic religion. Or out of necessity the underlying propensity to creatively make those type inferences, along with other prescriptive cultural guidelines encouraging rewards for perseverance. The earlier world was a brutal place for a species that could fully articulate and apprehend the degree of individual suffering and inevitable death. A survival mechanism had to arise to counteract the suicidal reasoning of "Why not just end this misery and nonsense right now?" or "Why keep bringing children into this horror, especially since most of them get sick and perish before adulthood?"

Edward O. Wilson: "The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure." --Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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