Chisango Tadios, Maunganidze Langtone, Maseko Mpikelelo, Muchena Brian, Ncube Spiwe, Hombarume Lissa, Matanga Anesu Aggrey
Department of Psychology, Midlands State University (MSU), Harare, Zimbabwe.
Department of Resource Management, Midlands State University (MSU), Harare, Zimbabwe.
Heliyon. 2023 May 29;9(6):e16783. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16783. eCollection 2023 Jun.
The theory of evolution has often been misconceived and often associated with racist undertones and insinuations towards Black Africans, who are assumed to be less evolved and thus closer to "apes" genetically than other, presumably more advanced racial groups. In this research was thus tested the hypothesis that misconceptions surrounding Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, particularly racial ones, would predict a lack of acceptance of the theory in particular, and the entirety of the science enterprise in general among a sample of Black Zimbabweans. We also tested the impact of spirituality on both acceptance of evolution and science. The hypotheses received support from the findings and they are discussed in line with pedagogy surrounding evolution and science. The findings of the most central importance were that racial misconceptions, general misconceptions and spirituality predicted both acceptance of evolution and science. In turn, the effects of all these exogenous variables on acceptance of science were mediated by lack of acceptance of evolution.
进化论常常被误解，且常常与针对非洲黑人的种族主义言外之意和暗示联系在一起，这些暗示认为非洲黑人进化程度较低，因此在基因上比其他大概更先进的种族群体更接近“猿类”。因此，在这项研究中，我们检验了这样一个假设：围绕查尔斯·达尔文进化论的误解，尤其是种族方面的误解，会导致在津巴布韦黑人样本中，他们对这一理论缺乏接受度，进而对整个科学事业缺乏接受度。我们还检验了灵性对进化论和科学接受度的影响。这些假设得到了研究结果的支持，并根据围绕进化论和科学的教学法进行了讨论。最重要的研究结果是，种族误解、一般误解和灵性既预测了对进化论的接受度，也预测了对科学的接受度。反过来，所有这些外生变量对科学接受度的影响都是通过对进化论缺乏接受度来介导的。
