Table 2.
Pseudonym | Gender | Current religious identification | Family religion in childhood | Highest degree | Years teaching undergraduate biology | Level of self-reported experience teaching evolution | Personal belief about God and evolutiona | R1 or CC instructorb |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Neil | Male | Agnostic | Jewish | PhD | 28 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Albert | Male | Agnostic | Catholic | PhD | 12 | High | Unsure of God involvement | R1 |
Martin | Male | Agnostic | Protestant | PhD | 44 | High | No God involvement | R1 |
Janet | Female | Agnostic | Catholic | PhD | 20 | Moderate | No God involvement | CC |
Chester | Male | Agnostic | Protestant | PhD | 22 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Frank | Male | Atheist | Catholic | PhD | 7 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Edward | Male | Atheist | Protestant | PhD | 24 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Marie | Female | Atheist | Protestant | PhD | 23 | Low | No God involvement | R1 |
John | Male | Atheist | Atheist/Catholic | PhD | 30 | Low | No God involvement | R1 |
Anthony | Male | Atheist | Catholic | PhD | 25 | High | No God involvement | R1 |
Rose | Female | Atheist | Jewish | PhD | 32 | High | Unsure of God involvement | R1 |
Rachel | Female | Atheist | Jewish/Agnostic | PhD | 11 | High | No God involvement | R1 |
Lynn | Female | Atheist | Protestant | PhD | 10 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Victoria | Female | Atheist | Protestant | PhD | 10 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Craig | Male | Atheist | Atheist | Master’s | 11 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Irene | Female | Atheist | Protestant/Atheist | Master’s | 43 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Emma | Female | Atheist | Catholic | PhD | 20 | Low | No God involvement | CC |
Danny | Male | Atheist | Protestant | PhD | 19 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Theodore | Male | Atheist | Catholic | PhD | 29 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Charles | Male | Atheist/cultural Jew | Jewish | PhD | 11 | High | No God involvement | R1 |
Ernest | Male | Catholic | Catholic | PhD | 15 | High | No God involvement | R1 |
Greg | Male | Catholic | Catholic | PhD | 20 | High | Unsure of God involvement | R1 |
David | Male | Catholic/Jewish/Agnostic | Catholic | PhD | 11 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Samuel | Male | Jewish | Jewish | PhD | 40 | High | Refused to answer | R1 |
Ronald | Male | Jewish | Protestant/agnostic | PhD | 17 | High | Unsure of God involvement | R1 |
Richard | Male | Jewish | Jewish | PhD | 20 | High | No God involvement | CC |
Thomas | Male | No answer | No answer | PhD | 17 | High | Refused to answer | R1 |
Brittany | Female | Other | Agnostic | PhD | 10 | High | Unsure of God involvement | CC |
George | Male | Protestant | Protestant | PhD | 41 | Moderate | No God involvement | R1 |
Jonathan | Male | Protestant | Protestant/Catholic | PhD | 35 | High | Unsure of God involvement | CC |
Faye | Female | Protestant | Protestant | Master’s | 18 | Low | God guided | CC |
Anne | Female | Questioning | Protestant | PhD | 12 | Moderate | Unsure of God involvement | CC |
aFor personal belief in God’s role in evolution: No God = human beings have evolved over billions of years from older life-forms and God was not involved in this process; Unsure of God = human beings have evolved over billions of years from older life-forms and I do not know whether or not God had anything to do with this process; God guided = human beings have evolved over billions of years from older life-forms and God guided this process.
bCC = community college.