DIVINE DNA? "SECULAR" AND "RELIGIOUS" REPRESENTATIONS OF SCIENCE IN NONFICTION SCIENCE TELEVISION PROGRAMS.
Through analysis of film sequences focusing on DNA in two British Broadcasting Corporation nonfiction science television programs, Wonders of Life and Bang! Goes the Theory, first broadcast in 2013, contrasting "religious" and "secular" representations of science are identified. In the "religious" p...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 6 - 27 |
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