Origins Story
“Dr. Shane, you are not taking this seriously and you need to.” A graduate student in my science methods course took me to task for my indifference about the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board trial that was adjudicated in a federal courthouse in Harrisburg, just up the interstate from my workplace, Shippens-burg University, where I had begun a new phase of my career teaching chemistry and training secondary science educators. Looking back, I am grateful for Kyle’s candor.
Since then, teaching about relationships between science and religion has become a central part of my professional and missional life. Within academic circles, conference presentations, science education journal articles, annual Darwin Day lectures, and an interdisciplinary honors seminar eventually led to a group of us publishing a primer through the National Science Teaching Association, Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond (2020).
