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Record W2104478232

A Threat to Geoscience Education: Creationist Anti-Evolution Activity in Canada

2006· article· en· W2104478232 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueGeoscience Canada · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEvolution and Science Education
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCreationismHumanitiesPolitical scienceBiological evolutionEnvironmental ethicsPhilosophyBiologyEvolutionary biology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The rejection of biological and geological evolution is a pervasive problem in science education. Recent events in the United States have brought anti-evolution activity to the forefront in media coverage of science education, but Canadians are often unaware that such creationist, anti-evolution activity is present in Canada as well. In this article, various foreign and Canadian-based anti-evolution efforts that threaten biology and geoscience education are discussed. These creationist organizations and their activities may adversely influence Canadian science curricula and public understanding of evolution and science in general. SOMMAIRE Je rejet de l'idee d'evolution biologique et geologique est un probleme generalise auquel est confronte l'enseignement des sciences. Recemment, aux Etats-Unis, certains evenements ont porte l'activisme anti-evolution a l'avant-scene de la couverture mediatique de l'enseignement des sciences, mais ici au Canada, il est frequent que les Canadiens ne soient pas conscients qu'un tel mouvement creationniste et anti-evolution existe. Le present article decrit divers mouvements creationnistes et anti-evolution, d'origine etrangere et canadienne, qui menace l'enseignement de la biologie et des sciences de la Terre. Les efforts de ces organisations creationnistes peuvent avoir un effet prejudiciable sur le contenu des programmes d'enseignement des sciences et sur la comprehension du public de l'evolution et des sciences en general.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.476
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it