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- Title
El papel de la relación ciencia-religión en la circulación del darwinismo en la enseñanza de la biología en Colombia.
- Authors
Peñaloza, Gonzalo
- Abstract
Colombia was a catholic country until the last decade of 20th century because since 19th century the State established an official compromise with Vaticano to defend the religious dogmas including education. For this reason, to understand the history of science and evolution ideas is necessary take account of the relationship between religion and science in the country. This paper shows results of a critical and interpretative research which objective was to study the way how science and religion interacted with darwinism in school science. For it, the research examines biology school textbooks published in Colombia between the second half of the 19th until the 70's of the 20th centuries. The study concludes that natural theology and neo-thomism were a philosophical framework that combined science, and his teaching, with Catholic worldview. Consequently, the darwinistic thesis of common ancestor, applied to humans, was conditionally accepted to preserve their special nature; the natural selection theory was admitted like a explanation of second causes, preserving the idea of God as primary cause; and the thesis of contingency of evolution was rejected by consider it like a materialistic and ideologized idea.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; STUDY &; teaching of natural selection; BIOLOGY education; EDUCATION; RELIGION &; science; BIOLOGY textbooks; HISTORY of education
- Publication
Philosophy & History of Biology / Filosofia e História da Biologia, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1983-053X
- Publication type
Article