The Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism (2018)

Wise et al. ◀ Devotional Biology ▶ 2018 ICC 261 1. I liked science before I took this course. SD D N A SA A+SA S17 5 (7%) 12 (17%) 20 (29%) 20 (29%) 13 (19%) (47%) F17-A 3 (6%) 4 (9%) 14 (30%) 11 (23%) 15 (32%) (55%) F17-B 1 (3%) 5 (14%) 11 (31%) 14 (40%) 4 (11%) (51%) F17-C 4 (5%) 8 (9%) 27 (32%) 33 (39%) 13 (15%) (54%) S18-A 4 (9%) 5 (11%) 10 (23%) 20 (45%) 5 (11%) (57%) S18-B 2 (5%) 7 (18%) 12 (30%) 11 (28%) 8 (20%) (48%) S18-C 1 (6%) 0 (0%) 2 (12%) 6 (35%) 8 (47%) (82%) S18-D 0 (0%) 3 (17%) 4 (22%) 8 (44%) 3 (17%) (61%) TOTAL 20 (6%) 44 (12%) ## (28%) 123 (35%) 69 (19%) (54%) Table 2. Student Opinion Polls from Courses with Devotional Biology as their Primary Text: KEY TO OPINION POLL ANSWERS: A: Agree; D: Disagree; N: Neutral; SA: Strongly Agree; SD: Strongly Disagree. KEY TO SEMESTER: F17: fall semester 2017; S17: spring semester 2017; S18: spring semester 2018. Different professors teaching the course in the same semester are denoted by ‘A’, ‘B’, etc. with no particular order to preserve the anonymity of the professor and institution. 2. Through the Devotional Biology textbook I learned to like science. SD D N A SA A+SA S17 4 (6%) 8 (11%) 23 (33%) 27 (39%) 8 (11%) (50%) F17-A 2 (4%) 5 (11%) 13 (28%) 19 (40%) 8 (17%) (57%) F17-B 2 (6%) 3 (9%) 18 (51%) 12 (34%) 0 (0%) (34%) F17-C 3 (4%) 6 (7%) 28 (33%) 31 (36%) 17 (20%) (56%) S18-A 2 (5%) 6 (14%) 14 (32%) 18 (41%) 4 (9%) (50%) S18-B 0 (0%) 2 (5%) 13 (33%) 15 (38%) 10 (25%) (63%) S18-C 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (24%) 8 (47%) 5 (29%) (76%) S18-D 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 7 (39%) 9 (50%) 1 (6%) (56%) TOTAL 13 (4%) 31 (9%) ## (34%) 139 (39%) 53 (15%) (54%) 3. Through the Devotional Biology textbook I learned biology I didn't know before. SD D N A SA A+SA S17 2 (3%) 3 (4%) 9 (13%) 25 (36%) 31 (44%) (80%) F17-A 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 2 (4%) 17 (36%) 26 (55%) (91%) F17-B 0 (0%) 2 (6%) 7 (20%) 18 (51%) 8 (23%) (74%) F17-C 2 (2%) 5 (6%) 4 (5%) 39 (46%) 35 (41%) (87%) S18-A 3 (7%) 1 (2%) 2 (5%) 19 (44%) 18 (42%) (86%) S18-B 1 (3%) 0 (0%) 2 (5%) 15 (38%) 22 (55%) (93%) S18-C 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 1 (6%) 6 (35%) 9 (53%) (88%) S18-D 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 4 (22%) 4 (22%) 9 (50%) (72%) TOTAL 9 (3%) 14 (4%) 31 (9%) 143 (40%) 158 (45%) (85%)