Adaptability and variability are instruments of evolution, whereas its ontological content is the creation of the stable forms that are resistant not only to extinction but to further evolution as well.
Kicking and screaming, we are nonetheless evolving into a condition of lucidity, and you – a single individual – have been a crucial instrument of that unprecedented evolution, that vast human process.
The Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution instrument (Rutledge and Warden 1999) was used to determine participants' acceptance of evolutionary theory.
This instrument, an evolution of an air-puff tonometer, measures the changes in the light intensity recorded on a detector that collects light reflected from the cornea during the applanation produced by an air-puff impinging the cornea.
Questions are from the Material Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) instrument (Rutledge and Sadler 2007).
In order to ascertain student attitudes towards evolution we administered the Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) instrument (Rutledge and Warden 1999).
In the "Methods" section, we quantitatively assessed the participant's acceptance using the measure of acceptance of theory of evolution (MATE) instrument.
We also asked students to respond to eight statements from the Material Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) instrument developed and validated by Rutledge and Sadler (2007).
The MATE is a 20-item, 5-point Likert scale instrument that measures students' acceptance of evolution (20 (reject) - 100 (accept)).
College students whose recollections of their high school biology courses included creationism were significantly more likely to invoke creationism-based answers on questions derived from the Material Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) instrument than were students whose recollections of their high school biology courses included evolution but not creationism.
