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. 2016 Summer;15(2):ar18. doi: 10.1187/cbe.15-11-0243

Table 2.

Instructor survey responses to demographic questions and other survey questions as well as their position at an R1 institution or community college

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.