{"id":4869,"date":"2017-06-05T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2017-06-05T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:35:27","slug":"evolution-makes-scientific-sense-so-why-do-many-people-reject-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/2017\/06\/05\/evolution-makes-scientific-sense-so-why-do-many-people-reject-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Makes Scientific Sense. So Why Do Many People Reject it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Photo-for-Post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Photo-for-Post.png\" alt=\"Evolution\" width=\"414\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Photo-for-Post.png 886w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Photo-for-Post-636x373.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Photo-for-Post-768x451.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Child psychology studies have found a human bias toward the theory of intelligent design and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Evolution remains misunderstood by students and even science teachers, and although it is a mandatory program in the majority of the UK and the United States more than a third of both countries reject the theory of evolution or believe it is guided by a supreme being. These beliefs become increasingly emphasized as children get older which why it is vital to teach evolution and natural selection at an earlier age.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/head-quarters\/2016\/mar\/31\/intelligent-design-popular-evolution-creationism\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Child psychology studies have found a human bias toward the theory of intelligent design and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier. Evolution remains misunderstood by students and even science teachers, and although it is a mandatory program in the majority of the UK and the United States more than a third of both countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}